At the end of his bullish Financial Times column on India today (“India’s elephant charges on through the crisis”), Martin Wolf offered this suggestion,
Exhausted by the burden of its pretensions, the UK should soon offer its seat on the security council of the United Nations to its former colony. Its condition would be that France does the same in favour of the European Union. Whether or not such enlightened statesmanship is forthcoming (presumably not), we are moving into the age of continental superpowers. Asia will be home to not one, but two, of them.
An economist by training, Wolf can be something of a dry writer, but “exhausted by the burden of its pretentions” was a great turn of phrase.
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