
TWO-AND-A-HALF years may have passed since he lost his power and glory, as well as the undeserved public respect he enjoyed because of his position rather than for his moral stature, but Nik the First still refuses to accept that he is, like the rest of us, just another nobody of no importance.
Astonishingly, he is entertaining these delusions of statesman gravitas when he is being investigated for large-scale corruption,