> I remember a recent display of intelligence by the British Ambassador to
> Argentina. He used to go to the Embassy by _public transportation_. The bus,
> Nr. 93, takes an hour from the Ambassador's home to the Embassy, but the guy
> saw it fit to take a bit into the road of demagoguery and even arranged press
> coverage of his "democratic" ways to traverse our town.
Knowing what I know about Foreign Office budgets, this was cost-cutting disguised as
propaganda. Being demotic while keeping up appearances is all part of the same
peculiarly British schizoid diplomacy. You go to any stately home and you'll see the
same thing: grandiose exteriors, but the noble lord lives below stairs en famille
with the hereditary butler.
Mark
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