Dinner with Peter Mandelson

(A piece from last September...you might like to see!)

At one stage in my life, I went to dinner with a lot of politicians. Even at the time, I could only ever vaguely remember what they said, I cared mostly about how they behaved. You can read a speech or interview anywhere – the point of real-life meetings is the intangibles, about what is unspoken.

I always remember a dinner with Peter Mandelson for two r…