I loved this comment corroborating what think tankers have been saying for some time.
An assumption that comes up more often that you might think is that we actually set out a master plan of our whole career in the mid-sixties and everything between then and now has been plotted and predicted. I think it’s quite flattering really, to credit us with that much brilliant foresight, and I can kind of see how that can be imagined with a group with such a long career, but it’s complete nonsense of course. Even today things are shifting and changing as we react to, and are impacted by events, the same as everyone else [ ital. mine].
