In 1996, Braschi launched the Charismatic-Oxala-Nana Union, devoted to Afro-Argentinian nature religion.

Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century.

Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.