GUESS WHO I RAN INTO…

… in the lobby of the St Martin’s Lane hotel? I could have been hallucinating, but I swear it was Tina Brown. Coward that I am, I fled. Wouldn’t you?

FRIEDMAN’S SMARTS: “There is a lot about the Bush team’s foreign policy I don’t like, but their willingness to restore our deterrence, and to be as crazy as some of our enemies, is one thing they have right.” Couldn’t put it better myself than in Friedman’s column today (although the turkey story veers dangerously toward self-parody). Tom Friedman is now clearly the most significant liberal voice in favor of this war. Check out the rest here.

SCHAMA ON CHURCHILL: If you’re a Winnie fanatic (as I am), then don’t miss this wonderfully fresh and perceptive piece by Simon Schama in the New York Review.