I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
A week is a long time in politics.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.