“Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside…” The carefully staged photo opportunity of Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respective spouses walking hand-in-hand along the promenade at Carbis Bay was redolent of the comfortable cliché “Do you remember that nice couple we met on holiday…?” But this was politics, so of course the scenario was completely contrived and the underlying reality radically different.
All eyes on Paris ahead of Olympics opening ceremony
France’s opening ceremony promises to be quite the spectacle, provided security threats can be kept at bay.