Peter Gallagher

In the dis­tance, a still-uncertain buzz. Some­thing is finally headed for the land­ing zone … Maybe the obvi­ous trans-Atlantic deal has been done. Maybe not. Lamy’s hedg­ing his bets. He can­not have for­got­ten the lessons of the last such deal just before Can­cún. Faits accom­plis are pre­cisely like ‘mis­sions accom­plished’. Famous, in ret­ro­spect, usu­ally for …