"I have spent time in Russia, China and India recently and people there say: 'If you want us to engage with the EU, choose someone we've heard of, don't pick Jean-Claude Juncker [Prime Minister] of Luxembourg.'"
BWAHAHAHA!!! So they name him by name and post, but they never heard of him?... Such lousy astroturfing. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Charles Grant, afaik, does not sport a Moustache of Understanding. But he seems to be taking a leaf out of Friedman's book. "I'm just back from (younameit) and over there they've all been telling me what I want to hear. My taxi driver said...".