Our Consul-General in Miami is my old friend Kevin McGurgan, who learned some of the darker arts of public diplomacy when we served together in chaotic conditions in Sarajevo in 1996/97.

Time moves on. KM is now busy in and around his corner of the USA promoting the London Olympics – with Lennox Lewis.

He kindly sends out this alert to low-flying aircraft in the Florisa area in May:

Next month I am throwing the opening pitch at a baseball game between the Marlins and the Mets here in Miami for the same cause.