By Bagehot
MY PRINT column this week reports on William Hague’s latest consult with to south-east Asia and what it finds referring to the Foreign Secretary’s imaginative and prescient for British foreign policy. The essence of British diplomacy Hague-model, I imply, would possibly perchance well also be summed up in a phrase I watched him recount in a crowded lecture theatre in Hanoi: friendliness blended with self-pastime.
