The terms of all appointed board members of Arena have now expired and they have not been replaced, leaving it governed by the secretary of the Department of the Environment.
Critics of his record argued that, instead of using his parliamentary majority to reform the institutions of state, he pursued incoherent short-term policies that left Britain ill-governed in important areas.
I became so obsessed with the idea that if left unsupervised or un-governed by the enforcement of societal norms pretty much anyone would eventually turn into the sort of person who would kill pigs and then put their heads on sticks outside of someone's tent.
The rhetoric that accompanied the campaign was striking, too: it celebrated the martial races of the Himalayan foothills, who are plucky and loyal.But given that Ms Lumley's success means that thousands of relatively rich Nepalis will leave a badly governed country, the reception she received might seem strange; indeed, it puzzled some Nepalis.
The thousands of young foreign recruits to the cause of Isis were not "losers" – if so, she argues, why would they leave prosperous, decently governed countries such as Britain and the US to fight in half-destroyed cities in the desert sands?
Jim Davidson was another who threatened to leave a Labour-governed Britain in 1997, but he did not make good on his promise until 2004 when he moved to Dubai.
It strikes me that the polarisation is not just a vertical one between left and right, but a horizontal one between the governed and the governers.
Margaret and Erik left vacant the highest Norwegian administrative position and governed Norway from Copenhagen.
And when questions arose about the rules that governed behavior on board, interpretation was left not to the captain but to a jury of crewmen.
Such conveniences were, of course, a kind of compensation for the great burdens that he bore: the crippling riding accident that left him lifelong pain, the reckless homosexuality that stifled and governed his social life in a less tolerant time.
