Liz Truss (James Manning/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)In trying to define what constituted “hardcore pornography”, Justice Potter Stewart delivered the most iconic line in US Supreme Court history: “I know it when I see it”. The maxim stuck, not only because it was inadvertently comedic (at least as far as jurisprudence goes), but because everyone knew what he meant.
Conversely, other qualities are more conspicuous by their absence. Specifically, emotional intelligence — loosely defined as the ability to understand, control and express one’s emotions and manage those of others.
