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The US Embassy's planned move to a high-security site at Nine Elms will have important consequences. Without chi-chi restaurants for entertaining contacts nearby, the diplomats' expense bills will collapse. And that is not a wholly frivolous point. One of the main purposes of diplomacy is to mix with the people and live the life of the country you're in. Now America's legendary incomprehension of foreigners can only grow.
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