Bad timing

Good to see Paul Wolfowitz taking my advice. In a way the whole story’s about bad timing. For him, in the sense that a relatively insignificant and disputable allegation of misconduct caught him out at a time when an unstoppable tide was running against the ideological clique of which he’s a leading light. And bad timing for us, in the sense that if he’d gone a year ago, a despairing Gordon Brown might have applied for the World Bank presidency and been hailed as the perfect man for the job. How much better it would have suited him than the one he’s just got.