The elite of every country is increasingly out of control.
For a group of people supposedly craving the return of great power politics, the leaders at the G7 meeting in Biarritz looked remarkably crap at it.
There was romance – Melania’s swoon over Justin Trudeau; there was comedy – Johnson and Trump on the stairs. And there was even drama, when the Iranian foreign minister arrived unannounced by ministerial jet. But there was very little substance. And that’s not surprising given the eviscerated state of the global system the G7 exists to administer.
In Charlevoix last year, with …read more
Source:: New Statesman
