I've Served On Five Different Juries, And

British Diplomats Who Worked In Iran During The 1980 Hostage Crisis Are Deeply Upset By Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Film 'argo,' Which Suggests They Refused Shelter To The Group Who Managed To Get Out Of The U.s. Embassy.

America Loves The Representation Of Its Heroes To Be Not Just Larger Than Life, But Stupendously, Awesomely Bigger Than Anything Else. If Blue Whales Built Statues To Each Other They'd Be Smaller Then These.

Remember How Margaret Thatcher Came To Believe That Abroad Was More Important Than At Home? Didn't Do Her Much Good.

Peter Mandelson Is The Only Man I Know Who Can Skulk In Broad Daylight.

Curiously, It Is Hard Not To Be A Little Optimistic About The Future For Zimbabwe (as Nobody At All Calls It Yet, Except In Political Speeches). The Fear Is Not That There Will Be Mass Slaughter Of The Whites, Followed By Their Flight To South Africa And The Collapse Of The Economy, But That The Need To Retain White Confidence May Mean That The Blacks Are Badly Disappointed.