Charles Nevin: If only the meek had inherited the earth
Published: 12 June 2006
Being of a kindred temperament, my sympathies are presently spending time with Sir Menzies Campbell and the 21 Vietnamese oil executives who face suspension after failing to take part in karaoke at a contract-signing ceremony near Hanoi.
Sir Ming was in a dreadful state at Question Time last week, fiddling, smoothing, adjusting, checking, and any other participle you might care to dangle that suggests high anxiety. Not surprising, either, given the hard time he's been given over past performances. In the event, he swallowed hard and triumphed. Not so the 21 oil executives, who didn't, and now await their fate, with a defence of doing it their way unlikely to impress. But I know how they felt, and perhaps you do, too. The world divides broadly into the ones who had their hands up at the panto and the ones who were sitting on them, minging.
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