Samuel PepysI find at Court that there is some bad news from Ireland of an insurrection of the Catholiques there, which puts them into an alarm.
I hear also in the City that for certain there is an embargo upon all our ships in Spayne, upon this action of my Lord Windsor’s at Cuba, which signifies little or nothing, but only he hath a mind to say that he hath done something.
Neil Hoskins@samuelpepys Two modern parallels in the same day. Maybe you should only be allowed to be in government if you've studied history.