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Aunque Chamberlain seguia negandose a escuchar el consejo de Churchill de vincular a Rusia al tratado anglofrances, Halifax hizo publica una nota de prensa afirmando que, en el caso de un ataque aleman a Checoslovaquia, < |
Niall Ferguson | ||
| b55d612 | In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins? | sins | Niall Ferguson | |
| 1bdff5e | Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only two monuments: one was the game of Association Football, the other was the expression "Fuck off".' " | football | Niall Ferguson | |
| 48b764e | The aim of Cold War competition in the third world was not to win a contest between rival models of economic development but above all to "fill(...) a spiritual void," for "even Communism has made many more converts through the theological quality of Marxism than through the materialistic aspect on which it prides itself." | political-science | Niall Ferguson | |
| 8d66a63 | the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn't process information in any conventional sense--or, in a way, he didn't process it at all. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 8e16d39 | our species should really be known as Homo dictyous ('network man') because - to quote the sociologists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler - 'our brains seem to have been built for social networks'. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| e9adacd | Inequality did increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1780 and 1830 output per labourer in the UK grew over 25 per cent but wages rose barely 5 per cent. The proportion of national income going to the top percentile of the population rose from 25 per cent in 1801 to 35 per cent in 1848. In Paris in 1820, around 9 per cent of the population were classified as 'proprietors and rentiers' (living from their investments) and .. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 6ae9fc7 | Power, let us not forget, is not just about being able to buy whatever you want; that is mere wealth. Power is about being able to get whatever you want at below the market price. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 0cfc015 | La retorica europea de los nazis hallo especial resonancia en todos aquellos conservadores para quienes el dominio aleman parecia un mal menor frente al comunismo sovietico. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 22485ed | In a double-page spread in 1999, the Daily Mail ran a large photo of fake Nazis from 'Allo 'Allo! with a think-piece headlined 'In the week that Germany kept the old feud alive by illegally banning British beef: Why it's a good thing for us to be beastly to the Germans.' It was written, not by some hack but by the distinguished historian Niall Ferguson. He found a way to argue both that the 'war' with Germany was entirely phoney and that it.. | Fintan O'Toole | ||
| a32f66b | Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 4792f49 | the firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b8ff3eb | He's a guy who really hated school," said Bannon. "And he's not going to start liking it now." | Michael Wolff | ||
| dffa9f4 | Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to rise and who is going to fall, who lives and who dies. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 8119211 | that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 36862ee | he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d1374e1 | Trump, a man whose many neuroses included a horror of forgetfulness or senility, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 6692a5c | In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b764766 | The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b0da428 | To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, "such a cunt." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 9003405 | It was the first presidential instance of what the campaign regulars had learned over many months: on the most basic level, Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 9f4309e | The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new president's right to claim "alternative facts." As it happened, Conway meant to say "alternative information," which at least would imply there might be additional data. But as uttered, it certainly sounded like the new administration was claiming the right to recast reality. Which, in a sense, it was... | Michael Wolff | ||
| 31da2b9 | Donald Trump was a step up--and early in the 2016 race, Trump became the Breitbart totem. (Many of Trump's positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began to suggest to people that he, like Ailes had been at Fox, was the true force behind his chosen candidate. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 17f3774 | Trump had little or no interest in the central Republican goal of repealing Obamacare. An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese), he personally found health care and medical treatments of all kinds a distasteful subject. The details of the contested legislation were, to him, particularly boring; his attention w.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 57a70c5 | Just doing things became a Bannon principle, the sweeping antidote to bureaucratic and establishment ennui and resistance. It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do things didn't much matter if you just did them, it was still not clear who was going to do what you wanted to do. Or, a corollary, because nobody in the Trump administration really knew how to do a.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d5683e7 | A happy wife is a happy life," he said, echoing a popular rich-man truism." | Michael Wolff | ||
| e877833 | Bannon averred: "When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us in all these wars ... it's not a deep bench." | Michael Wolff | ||
| d2c3aa1 | It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. | Michael Wolff | ||
| df65ed5 | This required some tutoring for Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as "Mr. X-i"; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him "she.")" | Michael Wolff | ||
| 07f65d1 | Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost the entire White House staff demanded to know. "Errr ... that's why," said Bannon. "So the snowflakes would show up at the airports and riot." That was the way to crush the liberals: make them crazy and drag them to the left." | Michael Wolff | ||
| d950b36 | Much of the left--which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community's unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national secrets rather than a well-intentioned whistle-blower--now suddenly embraced the intelligence community's authority in its suggestion of Trump's nefarious relationships with the Russians. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 03d1a61 | Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's--nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade.) Also, he would let housekeeping know when he wanted his sheets done, and he would strip his own bed. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2ad4cce | myrmidons, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 73735e9 | Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called a Rockefeller Republican and now might more properly be a Goldman Sachs Democrat. He-- | Michael Wolff | ||
| a9dcf99 | The theory, suddenly presented as just this side of a likelihood, was that the Russians had suborned Donald Trump during a trip to Moscow with a crude blackmail scheme involving prostitutes and videotaped sexual acts pushing new boundaries of deviance (including "golden showers") with prostitutes and videotaped sex acts." | Michael Wolff | ||
| afc39f3 | It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b1b3562 | purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly. | Michael Wolff | ||
| bc48ff7 | Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was running the Paul Ryan White House. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 3e32d91 | We serve at the president's displeasure, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 6d246d2 | It was insidious. It was, to them, although they didn't put it this way, similar to the kind of dark Clinton-like conspiracies that Republicans were more wont to accuse liberals of--Whitewater, Benghazi, Emailgate. That is, an obsessive narrative that leads to investigations, which lead to other investigations, and to more obsessive no-escape media coverage. This was modern politics: blood-sport conspiracies that were about trying to destro.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f4c9a99 | It was part hortatory, part personal testimony, part barstool blowhard, a rambling, disjointed, digressive, what-me-worry approach that combined aspects of cable television rage, big-tent religious revivalism, Borscht Belt tummler, motivational speaking, and YouTube vlogging. Charisma in American politics had come to define an order of charm, wit, and style--a coolness. But another sort of American charisma was more in the Christian evangel.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 58cbbd0 | Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not--because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job. Priebus, as chief of staff, had to organize meetings, schedules, and the hiring of staff; he also had to oversee the individual functions of the executive office departments. But Bannon, Kushner, Conway, and the president's daughter actually had no specific responsibilities--they co.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 40101d4 | Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser--with | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7e69629 | In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power--and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be--Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves. | Michael Wolff |