Amusing follow-on to my rant about Clare Short a week ago. I was in the UN today and had a chat with an old friend who works in the Secretariat, and asked her what the reaction in the building had been. She said that in fact a) everyone in the UN assumes they are under surveillance anyway (noticeably my one “work” meeting took place at a quiet table in the cafeteria) and b) if anything people feel flattered to be the subject of attention by various security services.
Everyone here seems obsessed by the outcome of the Martha Stewart trial. I have barely heard of her (when I first heard about it I thought she must be a Star Trek actress, but I was getting her mixed up with Patrick Stewart). Still, good to see that celebrity doesn’t always confer immunity.
Flying home this evening, thank God. Only three proper meetings today, hardly worth really coming to New York for. Best meetings of the trip were at the National Security Council and the House of Representatives International Relations Committee. And have got no further on the Transdniestria paper…
Perhaps.
But there are plenty of other writers with more dazzle, so why aren’t ‘they’ voting for them.
I can’t say I was at all impressed by Wake – if I’d had to have paid for it, I’d have been distinctly annoyed.