I’m delighted to see that Aung San Suu Kyi has found time to spend with her family in Oxford this week and that, now she is being rehabilitated, the trade in arms to Burma can, presumably, be resumed to the benefit of all our pension pots.
There is something about the corners of her eyes, the glossy dark hair, the carefully pursed lips and even the careful choice of earrings that made a strange connection in my mind this morning. I was visited by the odd thought that the Burmese Nobel Prize winner might have used her long incarceration to have minor surgery to make her look to improve her acceptability to the Western Establishment and had chosen, from a sample book of possible alternatives, to be modelled on Dame Mary Archer.
There is something about the corners of her eyes, the glossy dark hair, the carefully pursed lips and even the careful choice of earrings that made a strange connection in my mind this morning. I was visited by the odd thought that the Burmese Nobel Prize winner might have used her long incarceration to have minor surgery to make her look to improve her acceptability to the Western Establishment and had chosen, from a sample book of possible alternatives, to be modelled on Dame Mary Archer.
One can imagine her asking of an aide
“Which of these women has my single mindedness of purpose, my self-restraint in personal relationships, my will-power and purity of thought and yet, has good connections with people who know how to run an effective coup d’etat?”
And the aide would ponder this for a moment and reply
“Your highness, no-one can compare with you on those scores - not even Lady Thatcher. The nearest the British Ambassador could come to a match for your unique qualities is this lady here. She conforms to your requirements in all aspects but one”
With a brisk nod to her surgeon she would have replied
“Very well then – make me like her but with better eyebrows.”
“Which of these women has my single mindedness of purpose, my self-restraint in personal relationships, my will-power and purity of thought and yet, has good connections with people who know how to run an effective coup d’etat?”
And the aide would ponder this for a moment and reply
“Your highness, no-one can compare with you on those scores - not even Lady Thatcher. The nearest the British Ambassador could come to a match for your unique qualities is this lady here. She conforms to your requirements in all aspects but one”
With a brisk nod to her surgeon she would have replied
“Very well then – make me like her but with better eyebrows.”
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