Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 16 September 2006

Dave is adamant that foreign policy cannot be reduced to soundbites, so we need a range of soundbites to convey this.

issue 16 September 2006

Monday

Busy busy. Dave is adamant that foreign policy cannot be reduced to soundbites, so of course, as Jed explained, we need a range of soundbites to convey this. ‘We will give solid not slavish support to the US’; ‘We will not come up with grand schemes to remake the world’ (Nigel says this is just as well because we can’t think of any); and most important ‘We’re all neo-libs now’.

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