John Laws was the last of his kind — for better or worse

This week, cricket He attempted to attend the state funeral for the late John Laws at St Andrew’s Cathedral in central Sydney.

We arrived too late to secure a seat at the 800-capacity cathedral in City Hall Square, where scores of mourners were kept out, and instead we were left to wander outside with the rest of the press corps, who were either setting up live crosses for television, listening to live blogs, or hurriedly set off from Saint Mary’s in Hyde Park, mistaking Laws for a Catholic.