The game is afoot. This week, I and several dozen wannabe MWs congregated at the Austrian Trade Commission in London for our official introduction to the education course. (The current chairman of the IMW is Austrian, Pepi Schuller MW.) The roomful of smiley faces represented a gamut of age, sex and accent. I guesstimated the demographic to span late 20s to late 40s of roughly equal gender split. Together, we are the 42 newest additions to the global corps of an amazing 271 students currently at various stages of the course.
The day primed us for our studies: we examined...