The Importance of Execution

Quentin Crisp's take on the difference between manners and etiquette was instructive, he said if you can't explain it to an 11 year old you haven't really understood it now. If you stand for something you'll find some people for you and some people against you, so if you don't want anybody to dislike you don't just be like everybody else. Americans would be much more like Brits with language that is inclusive rather than exclusive. One of my favorite things in the war was how Churchill-len got the lease-len program working.