A journalist once asked Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister of Britain, what aspects of his job he found most difficult to cope with? "Events, dear Boy," came the classic response. "Events."
Although Macmillan was Prime Minister in the early 1960s his remark reminds us of the one constant that every statesman has faced down the ages: that of being blown off course and into giddy circles by the sheer unpredictability of an ever-changing political landscape.
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