President Medvedev's Global Policy Forum is setting out from Moscow on a special train. If, instead of a giant, dark green engine, emblazoned with red hammer and sickle on a golden ground, wheels taller than a man doesn't come panting up to the platform, with samovars of boiling tea in every carriage, I'm going to be very disappointed. They wouldn't put us all on the equivalent of the Cambridge Cruiser would they?
The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency is to have its hash settled in the next forty-eight hours by specialists of every kind and persusasion under the gaze of journalists from across the world - but only here will an angels'-eye view be offered.
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You in this, HG?
Welcome back. by the way!
I wasn't, E, I was on a train that felt like those continental couchettes that went to the south of France, or bashed on down to Naples, when we were all young, and poor, and beautiful. Except this one was full of the usual suspects, on their way to another freebe. Well, yes, so was I, but I came in the spirit of investigation into a peculiar world of entitlement and its preservation. And goodness are they cross when their amour propre is slighted. It's all touchy hierarchies and recognition of statuses. I'm rather taken aback and thought I might post on it tomorrow.
Are you now a Fallen Angel in the hierarchy of the Prince of this World, or are you just visiting?
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