The phrasing of articles over the past weeks from the BBC, Guardian, Spiegel, Die Zeit, is all of intelligent rational actors – Macron, Merkel, Johnson – engaging with a twit. Emmanuel Macron’s thesis for his master’s level degree was on Machiavelli and Hegel. Angela Merkel has a doctorate in quantum chemistry and is married to a quantum chemist and professor. Donald Trump has a bachelor’s degree in economics and is married to a model.
The press release for the „Kings Bay Plowshares“ anti-nuclear demonstration in Georgia last month initially had the year wrong, just as several communications for anti-drone demonstrations I attended last year displayed the wrong date.
After Eton, Boris Johnson taught English and Latin before continuing on to Oxford.
