Madam, – It is hard to know which of the following was the least surprising. That the head of an organisation that has imposed punitive sanctions on the Irish economy was staying in a hotel suite costing over $3,000 a night. That he considered himself a socialist. Or that as a French politician he was accused of a sexual scandal.
In contrast, what was surprising was to see how the US authorities treated a powerful man as the equal of the man in the street by removing Dominique Strauss-Kahn to jail in handcuffs. I guess that’s what they do in a genuine republic. – Yours, etc,