Category: Quotes
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On the verge of another global financial crisis
” More than £42 billion pounds has been wiped off the value of the FTSE 100 banks this year amid a sector-wide exodus. Most of them have fallen more than 20% since the New Year, with investors concerned that we are on the verge of another global financial crisis.” Jamie Nimmo, Evening Standard 3 Feb 2016
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Creeping towards the White House
Trophy women are undoubtedly important to Trump and there would have been no bigger trophy than Princess Diana. He told friends he might have had a ‘shot’ at her, describing her as his ‘dream lady’. In his 1997 book, The Art Of The Comeback, he wrote: ‘I only have one regret in the woman department,…
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The use of force
Mark Urban, BBC correspondent, writing in his book about SAS operations in Iraq: “…in a UK context, for example, there are obvious political and legal reasons why the SAS could not have adopted a similar strategy against the Irish Republicans in the 1980’s. While applying Iraqi levels of force to the Irish counter-terrorism scene…