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How I rank all the Presidents since 1933:

1. Roosevelt
2. Obama
3. Truman
4. Eisenhower
5. Kennedy
6. Clinton
7. Bush Sr
8. Reagan
9. Johnson
10. Nixon
11. Carter
12. Ford
13. Bush Jr
14. Trump
And Prime Ministers since Chamberlain onwards:

1. Attlee
2. Churchill
3. Wilson
4. Macmillan
5. Blair
6. Thatcher
7. Major
8. Home
9. Brown
10. Heath
11. Callaghan
12. Cameron
13. Johnson
14. Eden
15. Chamberlain
16. May
We've not exactly been blessed with good PMs, have we?!
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But there's a problem here - and it's central to the entire conflict.

The 1967 borders mean... the borders prior to the Six Day War. And those borders - the 1949 Green Line - weren't defensible. At all. So Israel will never retreat to them.
And while the UN would say "sorry Israel, back you go, thanks", Israel's under no obligation to do anything at all. What they have, they hold. That's realpolitik in practice: in particular because in all of history, there has never been an independent Palestinian state.
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(Very) unpopular opinion: Elizabeth II has been a great queen. She commands respect. But as a mother and grandmother?!

Charles: treated Diana despicably; Diana was shut out by the family and left to suffer alone.

Andrew: enough said.

Edward: vanished from public life
Anne: OK, no problem there

Harry: is it really beyond the bounds of possibility that she could've stepped in to stop the staggeringly, monstrously racist media coverage of his wife?
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But she has to take some of the responsibility, surely?
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1. There's now a giant asterisk besides the 2017 and 2018 Major League Baseball Champions. And another besides all those teams on steroids in the 1990s and 2000s (I'm looking at you: Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Cubs, Giants).

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