Who leads, who follows?

Browsing through the latest issue of Monocle, I came to think of that classic question asked by one of my fellow political scientists here in Umeå, who leads and who follows? Less than a week ago, I flew Swiss with the most wonderful crew who gave out enough chocolate to fill at least a dozen Christmas calendars.

Now winter is definitely here and I have decided to renew my Monocle subscription for another year as the magazine seems to have a rather eerily predictive power...