Spent some time at the Marilyn Monroe exhibition at the NPG last week and came away with the following impression of the star. Poor girl with an hourglass figure goes on a quest for acting fame as a relief from unhappy childhood, and works hard to achieve global fame which makes her even more unhappy and then she dies. We went brass-rubbing afterwards.

When one hears the term 'a Marilyn moment' the first thought for many isn't her philosophical declarations on the future of global...