It's interesting on Russia, Ukraine and Trump.
They still endlessly repeat the story about the coal miner's daughter who had no opportunities in Britain.
Er. Having had an apparently adequate schooling free of charge, she went to an illustrious university for free also. The same one Prince William and Kate went to. When she was there, there was another member of the royal family at the university, albeit a second tier one. She had a great opportunity to distinguish herself in Britain. She never even tried. It's a shame. The chip has never left her shoulder.
As to this, it's total balls. Unlike Hill, I actually grew up in London. So I'm not just making it up: "Hill recalled for me a time in 2019 when Trump was visiting London and she found herself traveling through the city in a vehicle with Miller. “He was talking about all the knife fights that immigrants were causing in these areas,” she said. “And I told him: ‘These streets were a lot rougher when I was growing up and they were run by white gangs. The immigrants have actually calmed things down.’"
It's far worse now. London was incredibly unscary back then from the 1960s to the mid 1980s. Gangs of knife-carrying youths just weren't a thing, except in a few rotten places in the East End. She is endlessly dour.
I wish she'd stay focussed on Putin, because on Britain, she's a fairly poor observer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/magazine/trump-putin-ukraine-fiona-hill.html
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