Dominic Strauss-Khan’t..........

.........tell the difference between a pro and an enthusiastic amateur.

Here is a piece from the WSJ.

‘Paying prostitutes isn't illegal in France but encouraging prostitution

by offering them to others and using corporate funds to pay for them

is.

According to French news reports, Mr Strauss-Kahn was invited to

parties by the prostitution ring.

Asked on French radio in December about whether Mr Strauss-Kahn knew the women at these parties were

prostitutes, the former IMF chief's lawyer Henri Leclerc said he had no

reason for think so.

'He could well have not realized it, because you

see, in these parties, one is not necessarily clothed and I challenge

you to tell a naked prostitute from a naked lady of the world'. Mr

Laclerc told Europe 1 Radio’.

DS-K should be thanked for contributing to the gaiety of nations.

And was it purely symbolic that I drove through a village near the Burma border today called ‘ Mai Prik’?