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By: Joseph Gauci

Joseph Gauci — Thu, 21 May 2015 19:19:00 +0000

Imbroljun.

By: Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal — Thu, 21 May 2015 11:30:00 +0000

Just imagine for a second the following scenario :

Charles Polidano wanting to build a hotel on this tract of shoreline overlooking the Dead Sea. He phones up King Abdullah II for an appointment and is told that he is giving him the land as long as he builds a University instead. Agreement is reached and as soon as the contract is signed, Charles Polidano starts gesticulating behind King Abdullah II ‘s back and expect that no one will ever notice.

Ridiculous.

But the reverse scenario is a fact, and that is even more ridiculous.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 20 May 2015 23:55:00 +0000

Like one of Omid Djalili’s characters, you mean.

Djalili is terribly posh, very witty, and one of the funniest, sharpest men in British comedy.

Thaer Mukbel is exactly the sort of person he satirises so well.

By: Peritocracy

Peritocracy — Wed, 20 May 2015 23:04:00 +0000

“The major problem—*one* of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarise: it is a well-known fact that those people who must *want* to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

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