Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

The Fat Badger in London. Just amazing food, atmosphere and service. Dinner with some close friends could not have been better. Walk, don’t run to it.

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As a Brit by birth I’m confident when I tell me, an American by choice, that accelerating America’s loss of hegemonic power derived from its global domination of platforms (currency, defense, tech etc) and standards setting will, with hindsight, be regretted.

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last” (attributed to Winston Churchill, but apparently not the precise words he used but, in my view, succinctly captures the spirit of what he said).

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

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