POLITICAL INSIGHT
Let me start by quoting from the book Dictator, by Robert Harris – a book about Rome and the last 15 years of Cicero: “You have the soldiers but no legitimacy, we have the legitimacy but no soldiers. What we do both have, however, is a common enemy.” Another bit from the same book: “Your speeches and my swords will make an unbeatable alliance.” I suspect that, in smoke-filled rooms, on secret locations, men and women quaffing single-malt whisky have been meeting to negotiate alliances to the ...
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