 In the same kind of optimism, Harold McMillan, the prime minister in the 1960s, stood on the stage of the British framework and declared the fact, we have never had it so good. And his optimistic perspective ran up the stock market and encouraged everybody. But of course, if he could have seen life in the 90s or the closing embers of the 20th century, if he had lived into the mayhem of the 21st century,