Sunday 27 October 2013

No Saint

As the great man Jonah Fisher tweeted on Thursday: "Seems like today was the day many woke up to the fact that Aung San Suu Kyi is now a pragmatic ambitious politician and no saint."

In truth, she has always been overrated. And, like many Asian nationalists against European colonial powers, her father fought for Japan when Ralph Miliband was fighting for Britain.

But she did make the most hilariously middlebrow appearance on Desert Island Discs.


The subject is addressed in great detail here.

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