As Basil Fawlty would have said…

…in my speech today I made a point about how Islamic extremism isn’t a serious risk in rabidly pro-American Kosovo; there are indeed bearded clerics preaching hatred of the West in the Balkans, but they are mostly Christians.

And I realised that the chairman of the session, sitting right beside me, was in fact a bearded Christian priest. (He was also the first non-Communist foreign minister of East Germany.) But, as Basil Fawlty put it, I think I got away with it.

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