Children screamed and passengers huddled together as the flydubai aircraft lost thousands of metres of altitude in a matter of seconds. In the cockpit, a pilot had stabbed his colleague. Passengers rushed forward and overpowered the attacker. Israel’s Defence Minister has described it as a jihadist terrorist attack.
In ‘Giant’, James Dean plays Jett Rink, the poor ranch hand who strikes oil and becomes fabulously rich. It is a story that could hardly have been European. The egos are too small in Europe. In America, there is room for them. Perhaps that is also why Europeans find it so difficult to understand Donald Trump.
