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The many joys of small talk

Clever people have always understood the value of pleasantries at work

John Bolton was in London last week, which sent me flicking back through a memoir he wrote about his 17 chaotic months as Donald Trump’s national security adviser.

This was during Trump’s first term and Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened, lurches from Iranian drama to North Korean turbulence, amid asides about the US president wondering if the UK has nuclear weapons, or if Finland is part of Russia. 

One story I kept thinking about concerned the opening ceremony of a 2018 Nato summit where Bolton was seated next to the UK’s then-new foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

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