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April 5, 2025

This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year.

Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), Albanian communist revolutionary and politician, in Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Bloody Panico? Or Whatever Happened to the Tory Party? (London: 2024) Chapter 2

Are you capable of delivering really bad news in so artful a way?

It might be worth developing that skill as the good times never last forever.

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