At Davos this week, history lived up to its reputation of repeating itself as farce. In the 1980s, the triumvirate of President Reagan, Prime Minister Thatcher and Pope John Paul II brought down communism. In the 2020 remake unfortunately, the Iron Lady has been replaced by a Tyrannical Teen Climate Queen and the Pope is shilling for socialism or at least ‘putting people before profits’.
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