If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.
I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.