Jornot said: "This affair demonstrates the weakness of Swiss law at the point where funds enter the system.
"This affair demonstrates that, while some individual businesspeople are campaigning to leave the EU, their views do not come close to representing the clear majority of British businesses – large and small".
But Andrea Berg of Human Rights Watch said the affair demonstrated that "Kazakhstan clearly is not ready to take on a role as important as the OSCE chairmanship".
Nicolas Bouzou, director of Aster? an economic consulting firm in Paris, said the affair demonstrated the "paranoia" of companies like Renault, which chose to keep its investigation internal until a late stage.
In fact, Sonenshine continued, the affair demonstrated the Administration's ability to carry out a relatively sophisticated "wink and nod" policy with intended consequences.
But the underlying dynamic will not change, as the recent Windrush affair demonstrated all too well: this government is either incapable of, or unwilling to, treat citizens' rights with respect, especially those who have their origins abroad.
Yet, the must-be-balanced, meet-in-the-middle school of BBC journalism is not always error free, as the McAlpine affair demonstrated.
What the Spence affair demonstrated, though, is that everybody has a theory about what is or isn't wrong with the system.
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said that the Pietersen affair demonstrated the inability of English cricket to integrate high-profile figures within a team.
Yet Ms. Lesnick, whose previous film, "A Family Affair," demonstrated a lively sense of humor, shoots these passionate encounters with a glum, clinical detachment that drains much of the heat and spontaneity from them.
