Two recent examples hit home why the semicolon, otherwise despised by writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut, is indispensable to the art and architecture of prose.
Forget what you think you know about the benignly geeky computer programmer who lives for the thrill of finding a single misplaced semicolon in thousands of lines of code.
This is perhaps why you wrongly stated that the article was published in the Daily Mail, a newspaper for which I have never written so much as a semicolon.