About three weeks ago, I went to the Institute of Economic Affairs Christmas party in London. The end-of-year bash fell a couple of days after sundry US university presidents appeared before Congress. For banal busyness reasons—London does produce its own news—I hadn’t seen it.
Various party people tried to convey to me the calamitous nature and effect. I’m afraid I struggled to believe them. Nothing could be that bad, I thought, especially given US Congresscritters are far politer than UK Commons MPs or—to make the contrast even starker—Australia’s by turns amusing and spittle-flecked parliamentarians.
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