”I have observed, with a growing degree of trepidation, the slide of the Mail & Guardian down the slippery slope of sensationalism. Final proof of the dire levels to which this once-proud newspaper has sunk must surely be the article about the ”gravy plane” that the Speaker of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, is supposed to have boarded,” writes Uriel Llewellyn Abrahamse, deputy general manager of the African National Congress.