He learned to walk in three weeks, to talk in eight; he wrote six operas and 1,500 books while a student at Kim Il Sung University, and scored five holes-in-one in his first game of golf. Apart from being “the greatest writer who ever lived” and “greatest musical genius”, he was, by diktat, the Glorious General from Heaven, the Guiding Star of the 21st Century, and more than 200 other things.
A delightful obituary of the dear leader.
She was intrigued to discover that maids in Italy spent a great deal of time dusting ceilings. “I had never even thought of dusting a ceiling,” she says. “But then I looked up at mine—and they were very dusty.”
So many great articles in the Christmas double-issue of The Economist. This one compares the communication revolutions of the Arab Spring and The Reformation. Luther was a master of ‘going viral’.
