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As I am writing these lines, Ramadi fell into the hands of ISIS; Egypt executed six ‘militants’, three of whom are claimed—by Amnesty International—to have been in prison at the time of the supposed terror attack for which they were being executed; the war in Syria is still raging on; the war in Yemen is intensifying; and the EU has decided to use military force to tackle the migrant problem.
In the middle of what seems to be an avalanche of bad news, I had a conversation with a European friend, who was fortunate enough to have attended a speech by a 'white man in a suit' who claimed, “Headlines are negative, but the trend lines are positive”. This man was Bill Clinton.
