Thus the president lingers. Thus the spectre of blame to come gathers imperceptibly. Sochi isn't the site for sentient decision-making. Sochi is a tender trap. Reel events forward a week, to be sure, and the trap, snapping shut, will seem painfully obvious.
Perspective is a summer day by the pool.
Newspaper editors come to recognise that sense through their years in charge. Wherever they are, whatever they're doing, they are always responsible in law for what appears. Some jobs carry that can - and some, inexplicably, don't. A council director of social services is responsible 352 days a year, a director of education isn't. Richard Branson, Caribbean hideaway or no, is about to become as good as his last lottery draw.