Ahead of the G20 Meeting--Attention Journalists: "How to write about pointless international organisations"

Gideon Rachman at the Financial Times, July 8, 2008:

Some readers may wonder why I chose to write my column this week
about the International Criminal Court, rather than the obvious subject –
the G8 meeting in Japan.

The reason is that I had a thoroughly discouraging lunch with my colleague, Alan Beattie.
When I mentioned that I might write about the G8, he said – “Let me
guess, you will