...on Friday evening, after a committee meeting in George Street....as we approached Grosvenor Square, we decided to take a look at the statue of Ronald Reagan, unveiled there a couple of summers ago. It is an attractive statue, and the inscription gives details about his role in bringing to an end the Cold War, and includes some brief quotations from his speeches, eg "Mr Gorbachev - tear down that wall!"
Stood pondering...Reagan, Thatcher, and the great John Paul II...each of them survived an assassination attempt, each has now, after a long old age, gone to God...
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Yes, the three great figures who really defined what the 1980s would be all about.
The battle against Communism is now won, but it's not the end of history, and a new era brings new challenges. It's not clear who our greats will be, it's far too early to tell what sort of Pope the new incumbent will be.
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