EU referendum is a bad Irish joke

Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 22, 2012Business Spectator

John Maynard Keynes once warned, ‘The inevitable never happens. It is the unexpected always’. It is less well known that he had borrowed this phrase from the 19th century classicist Sir John Pentland Mahaffy.

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