I have to admit: last week was a bad one to take off. Plenty happened in Britain, which I’m digesting now (what was Mercer playing at?). But for what it’s worth, here are a few observations from my week in New York…
1. Rudy Giuliani’s campaign is more advanced and heavyweight then is appreciated this side of the pond. His foreign policy is the most convincing explanation on world affairs I have read so far. Hillary is bereft of new ideas: Team Giuliani is buzzing with them. Everyone I spoke to expects the presidential race to be a battle between these two.
2. New York will this year have lowest murder rate since records started in 1963. So the city’s local press predict. The fruits of Giuliani’s zero tolerance policing continue, a standing rebuke to the defeatist idea that UK violent crime is somehow an unavoidable symptom of Western lifestyle.
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