Take yourself back to June 1996. John Major was prime minister, embarrassed by Eurosceptic MPs and ministers whose now minor-seeming peccadilloes failed his “back to basics” test.
Bill Clinton was in his first term as American president, Boris Yeltsin his Russian counterpart. China’s gross domestic product was growing fast, and looking as if it might some day overtake Italy’s. It was a simpler and more optimistic time. It was also when a 46-year-old Binyamin Netanyahu first became prime minister of Israel.
Today, 25 years later, Yeltsin is dead and Clinton and Tony Blair receding into history, but Netanyahu is still clinging on in Beit Aghion, his official residence.
A pro Palestine demonstration in London last month on its way to the Israeli embassy in Knightsbridge
For all but two years when he stepped away from politics, “Bibi” has been a dominant figure