STRAWS IN THE WIND: Kofi and friends, Obituary wars, Skills shortages and literacy shortages*

Kofi and friendsKofi Annan’s luck still hasn’t run out. On the eve of perhaps the most prodigious humiliation that the United Nations has yet suffered, he handed over his job to a South Korean: he from a country which is trying to be all things to all people.Iran, supported by China, Russia and most Muslim countries, was on course to defy the UN, and make her Bomb. She still is – for as the odds against North Korea being controlled, lengthen – so does Iran appear more and more respectable. C…

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