THE DALAI Lama is a surprising man. During his recent visit to
Britain, the Foreign Office boffins were on the phone to the BBC to
make extensive preparations for a special edition of Start The Week
the exiled ruler of Tibet did with Jeremy Paxman.
"There were all these complicated orders about how he would arrive
two minutes before the programme and how he had to be treated with
caution," Paxman told me yesterday at the Hay-on-Wye literary
festival. "So we were somewhat startled when he ...