Friday, October 09, 2020

Marvellous bit in Irish Times today about how Johnson/Cummings' strategy was 'like trying to play chess with the sea.'

Found fine Keynes quote in that Kynaston history of the City, about how the US forced Britain to make sterling convertible after the war, about England being 'sticky with self-pity' and failing to accept that its place in the world was no longer what it had been.

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