Bored on 30 March 2011? You could have attended the gala performance for Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday. Billed as “The man who changed the world”, he was inspired by Thatcher when Soviet Ambassador to Britain to become the architect responsible for undermining the Soviet Union.
It was in London: a traitor to his country, class and party, he did not dare put such a show on in Russia.