4/1/2023 0 Comments The badlands guardian youtube![]() ![]() (In a rare use of Future Perfect) An incoming Labour Government will have been left with such a massive mess to try to manage. It would be a dereliction of duty not to do something like this. ![]() It's almost certain that the Conservatives will be defeated at the next election due by the end of 2024. ![]() (What Have We Done - Six Years On - UK Counts The Cost Of Brexit'). It seems that most senior Leavers in the UK government still think that #brexit is the best strategy in the long term despite "The Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted that, over the 15 years from 2016, Brexit will reduce the UK’s GDP per capita by 4%." Such a stubborn stance flies in the face of almost all projections but talks appear to be happening. It didn't pass everyone's notice that the last Labour Party manifesto had included a commitment to set up a permanent Education Commission to drive hopefully a visionary educational policy in the long term, independent from Government in a similar way to say the Bank of England's control of interest rates. The bi-partisan nature of this should be applauded in this age of division. Luigi Ippolito wrote that the debacle, compared by some to the Suez crisis and the end of Britain’s imperial ambitions, “has unmasked the post-Brexit illusion of being a totally sovereign nation that can ignore international realities. while in Italy – to whose habitual political chaos the Economist this week compared the UK’s – Corriere della Sera concluded that however the saga ended, Britain’s credibility had collapsed. The pro-Brexit coalition captured the British political establishment in 2016, and has slowly eroded that credibility until, as almost always happens, it suddenly ran out.” But he continued: “Everything has its limit. "In a comment article titled “And Britain broke” in Spain’s El País, Ángel Ubide said the UK’s long tradition of “bureaucratic and diplomatic efficiency, and the advantage of a universal language” had given it “an aura of credibility”. Perhaps the comparisons are unfair on both countries, but what has been truly remarkable & tragic is the determination of the UK's Conservative Party & it's press to make their country far, far less great. Two years before the the annus horribilis of 2016 the UK scored fairly respectably yet in the year of the Brexit referendum the British press was perceived in a YouGov survey as having the most right wing press in Europe. This aggregated surveys of the man or woman on the street from 13 countries on a range of questions that fit nicely into a Social Science course - for example what is the percentage of: immigrants, Muslims, pensioners, pregnant teenagers, unemployed people are in your country? An Index of Ignorance was constructed from the gaps between reality & perception - presumably attributed to the quality & veracity apparent in each nation's media sources, education system, & political/public discourse & debates. We also looked at resources in relation to Quality of Life indices & other resources that might look at comparatives including on the (related areas of?) best food & weather versus the most world changing inventions - UK 18, Italy (inc) Rome 7 (Observer Book of Invention).Īlso an engaging resource on the Perils of Perception which in 2014 showed Italy in a very poor light. I've been tutoring a few aspirational Italian students these last few months on the general area of #globalperspectives & had shared this profile on blogger Francesco Costa, seen here as the man who knows Italy best Through her, for 10 years I got to know and love Italy." She would take me on these crazy, spontaneous drives down from Rome through Naples, Campania and Calabria – in those days they were the badlands of Italy, afflicted by crime and corruption, but that was part of their appeal. In the early years of Simple Minds I had a girlfriend in Rome who shared my sense of wanderlust. But it is to Italy, and specifically Sicily, that I have kept returning. In the three decades since, I have been driven by a curiosity about what the rest of the world may have to offer. To a young kid growing up in Glasgow in the 1970s, life was all too monochromatic compared with the explosion of colours I glimpsed from a coach window on a school trip to Rimini. "I was 14 when I first realised the world was not all black and white. Born in Wallsend at the north-easterly edge of Hadrian's Wall perhaps I'm qualified to comment.Īlso an avowed music fan, from over the border I'd always noted the love of all things Italian from Simple Minds's Jim Kerr & Charlie Burchill - both now safely ensconced post-Brexit in Sicily - Jim owning a fancy hotel. ![]()
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