New Year prediction | clivejames.com

We’ve reached a turning point. A madness has gone out of fashion: the madness of behaving as if only too much can be enough. There will always be another madness, but not that one. From now on a man will have to be as dumb as a petrodollar potentate to think that anyone will respect him for sitting on a gold toilet in a private jumbo jet. Excess wealth is gone like the codpiece.

Something very distinctive about the short sentence ‘There will be another madness, but not that one.’

Interesting to see Clive without the ‘comedy’ glasses in the portrait, right.