Olafur Grimsson, president of Iceland, has been giving pretty freely of his time for radio interviews – I heard him on RTE1 on Sunday & on Radio 5 Live this morning. He is impressive – accepted gracefully Iceland’s mistakes leading up to the credit crunch, found the right formula to say that while he is sorry (without being in any way accountable for) an Icelandic volcano causing disruption to so many peoples plans, he is pleased that no one has been killed or hurt. And got in a nice wry joke about how the volcano did not pay attention to the bit in Genesis where it says God finished the job of creating the universe after 6 days.
And, just to add to all his other plus points, he is a graduate of Manchester university.
