Finland: They do better by going to school less. ibid.
Slovenia is one of dozens of countries where it is essentially free to go to university. ibid.
Germany: You only work 36 hours a week but got paid for 40 … Any stressed-out German can get their doctor to write out a prescription for a three-week stay in a spa. ibid.
Germany: Half of these boards are workers. ibid.
Portugal: Don’t arrest people for using drugs any more. ibid.
Welcome to the Norwegian prison system based on the principle of rehabilitation. ibid.
Tunisia: Free government-funded women’s health clinics and government-funded abortion. ibid.
Iceland: 1975 women’s strike … The first country to democratically elect a woman president. ibid.
First black president, and all those wonderful words about hope and change ... Whatever happened to hope? Andrew Marr, Obama: What Happened to Hope? BBC 2012
Change to what? ibid.
On that historic night in November 2008 when Obama was elected president was briefly ecstatically different. ibid.
One of his greatest strengths was simply his presence ... There was an exuberance of political intoxication. ibid.
Guantanamo Bay stayed open. ibid.
Health care in America is hugely expensive. ibid.
In 2010 Obama’s Democrats were slaughtered. ibid.
He’s rubbish at actually explaining what he’s doing. ibid.
They loathed him for what seemed to them to be liberal condescension. ibid.
He hasn’t really begun to change or reform. ibid.