If I hear one more clunking metaphor about how we’re trapped in the debt mine but there’s light at the end of the tunnel, I think I’ll bury myself in the garden.
If I hear one more clunking metaphor about how we’re trapped in the debt mine but there’s light at the end of the tunnel, I think I’ll bury myself in the garden. But the grit, faith and, most of all, mutual support of the Chilean 33 have given us a new role model and it would be churlish to deny their political leaders — who just happened to be there at the time — a global curtain call. President Pinera looked so pleased with himself in London this week that I half expected to see him shimmy across the Strictly dancefloor waving a winning lottery ticket. And I was drawn, in a way that I might not normally have been, to an article in the FT by his finance minister Felipe Larrain.
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