NEW CLINTON BOOK
SIMON LINCOLN READER: Echoes of shape of excuses to come from Zuma camp
"While some harbour more criminal intent than others, they are all essentially victims of their own entitlement."
I spent five minutes of a flight reading Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book and the other nine hours and 55 minutes thinking about where it would be most useful. Toilet paper in migrant camps? It is the only book I have encountered in which a question and an answer both appear on the cover in just five words. Around this time in 2016, I was invited to assist a member of a panel in a debate hosted by The Spectator magazine. Our side, arguing for the motion that Donald Trump would be the next president of the US, lost to the side arguing for Hillary Clinton, by about 200 votes. We didn’t articulate the inevitability of what was to happen in November 2016 because to do so honestly and convincingly, we would have had to emphasise Clinton’s behaviour, and that of her family’s, in the context of the wider political establishment. The Spectator is conservative but David Cameron’s chumocracy had perverted critical parts of this idea, so to declare that the US election would feature the same ...
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