COMMENT | These are times when reason does not prevail, not because it is difficult to see reason, but because there are some people who deliberately don’t want to in the misconceived notion that flogging a dead horse will make them a hero.

This sinking to insanity, obscuring and making irrelevant the reasons why such an event happened, plays little part in determining whether there is indeed a reason to boycott or not and the question of who indeed it is that should be boycotted.

It’s easier to determine when not to boycott than when to. So, we will start with that first and then move on to who we should boycott; what, why, when, where and how - the journalistic five w’s and one h.

Really, how much political capital does this person hope to get? I don’t even want to mention his...