On the day Obama visits Hiroshima let’s remember what a fool Iain Duncan Smith made of himself when he did the same

Then I remember William Hague’s visit to Japan. Definitely the winner.

He went with a group of MPs, and one of them had a pressing question to ask the mayor of Hiroshima. “Everywhere else we’ve been in Japan,” said the MP, “the streets have been higgledy-piggledy. Yet here in Hiroshima your streets are laid out in a well-organised grid. How did you achieve that?”

The mayor paused and quietly responded: “We had some help. From the Americans.”

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