The State of Global Leadership
Writing in Forbes, British historian Paul Johnson using a scalpel on the current crop of world leaders.
Try matching the names with the descriptions:- To quote Benjamin Disraeli, "A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity." If only he would talk less, and think more.
- A well-meaning hausfrau with the steely will of a dishcloth.
- An operator who is clever at everything except what matters most.
- A machine politician whose own machinery is visibly breaking down.
- A splendid advertisement for Viagra, a man whose antics would have afforded us much amusement in a time of normal prosperity.
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