Posts Tagged as ‘insults’

July 31, 2009

Diplomatic insults, click languages, Harry Potter in France, and cucumber season

This week, the nuanced — and sometimes not so nuanced — world of diplomatic insults: we hurl a few your way, coutesy of Hugo Chavez, Hillary Clinton and Winston Churchill. There’s also an overheated exhange in the British parliament between then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and leader of the opposition Neil Kinnock, which goes something like [...]