jamesprice.bsky.social
Francophone German speaker, actually native Brit but citizen of everywhere - it's nice to be anywhere at my age. At ease in Argentina, France, Spain, Germany and even in good old Blighty. Questing after unknown unknowns.
1,063 posts
444 followers
721 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
The problem is there is this idea that while AfD and Trump may be extreme, we Brits would never go fascist and Reform is just a more entertaining Tory party, and not a bunch of vicious neo-fascist nativists.
Brexit was a neo-fascist power grab dressed up as democracy, and Labour is in denial.
comment in response to
post
It isn't the last unresolved issue of Brexit, is it, because Brexit will always be an unresolved issue?
Philosophically speaking everything in life is unresolved.
comment in response to
post
I do hope so, but I fear he is too scared.
comment in response to
post
As in the case of Ireland, we Remainers warned that things would be messy for these outposts of Empire, but we were dismissed.
When Johnson negotiated he was uninterested in the details and of course lied shamelessly.
Gibraltar needs to be in the EU (as does the UK, when all is said and done).
comment in response to
post
The worst racism is found in the very whitest areas of the English provinces - the sort of places that voted for Brexit to stop the immigration that they only experience vicariously in pages of the rabble-rousing Daily Mail.
comment in response to
post
Which is why you don't hear 'Paddy' jokes any longer.
comment in response to
post
Many issues were not addressed.
The Teeside enquiry was like that.
comment in response to
post
It's what we need in the UK.
Not this endless xenophobia.
comment in response to
post
My late godfather, who served in the Washington and Paris embassies regretted the foolish exceptionalism that Thatcher encouraged - which is now an article of faith for many (largely the very parochial less educated middle-aged and elderly inhabitants of the English provinces).
comment in response to
post
I have a passport and my car has a licence plate.
An ID card doesn't bother me.
It really doesn't.
comment in response to
post
We are dealing with inward looking monoglots, so that is hard, The idealism of my parents' generation has been replaced by myopic 'self-interest'.
Of course true self-interest lies in loving thy neighbour.
Ask not what Europe can do for Britain.
Ask what Britain can do for Europe.
comment in response to
post
Well, how do the French and Germans cope?
comment in response to
post
It just needs to be the like a passport - and why not throw in an NHS number and a NI number.
So straightforward, and resident aliens could have one too.
Asylum seekers could have one!
So sensible.
comment in response to
post
ID cards are a fact of life in most countries, many of them more democratic and more equal than the UK.
This is English exceptionalism, Ian.
comment in response to
post
The problem is the media ignore the harm Brexit does.
comment in response to
post
You are right.
There is much to admire and enjoy, and most people are good people.
comment in response to
post
I just feel extremely fed up with my country.
That's what I feel.
comment in response to
post
And the 30% yearn for the return of this world.
comment in response to
post
He has to take on Farage.
What is wrong with FoM?
Is the alternative working?
Go for the jugular - his Russian links, the racism, his commitment to inequality.
comment in response to
post
The wartime generation moved on: Hugh Jenkins was a Bletchley park codebreaker and Edward Heath was demobbed as Lt colonel.
That generation was very European in outlook. It all went tits-up after Thatcher.
We are paying the price now, but it made my dad so happy that I had a close German chum.
comment in response to
post
The nation state exists as much in people's minds as in reality. The EU has not made the Italian's any less Italian (whatever the hell that means in a country that has only existed since the nineteenth century).
Brexit is about barriers to trade and civilisation. That's what the Brexiters wanted.
comment in response to
post
Brits ask 'What's the point of that?'
comment in response to
post
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/europe/...
I grew up learning French and German. That is rare now.
My parents had experienced the war and were delighted that I had a very close German friend. His ex Afrika Korps father was also delighted.
And along came Farage.
comment in response to
post
Galsworthy is is idealistic as it gets and it's idealism that we need.
comment in response to
post
When Videla took over Argentina he immediately shut down the Philosophy and Sociology departments.
The Germans just closed the Polish universities in 1939.
Fascists hate academia.
Mao did too.
comment in response to
post
He is a total tunc.
comment in response to
post
'Don't you know who we are?'
I despair.
comment in response to
post
The real question is what 'concessions' is the UK prepared to offer?
Whilst FoM is anathema to Labour (and indeed while they lie about its true impact on wages and all the rest in order to appease Farage) there really can be no way forward.
McSweeney has boxed Starmer in.
And that is that.
comment in response to
post
Bad, not good?
comment in response to
post
Almost 30% of Brits are fascists.
Worrying.
comment in response to
post
The Brexit fantasy lives on, and Labour is in thrall to it.
comment in response to
post
'AGILE'?
That is Brexiter speak and nonsense.
comment in response to
post
Please, no!
comment in response to
post
100%
comment in response to
post
En espagnol on ne peut pas l'éviter.
'Mis padres quisieron que (yo) sacase buenas notas.'
comment in response to
post
J'adore le passé-simple.
Et l'imparfait du subjonctif, qui a (presque) disparu.
comment in response to
post
Robbie Gibb's decision?
comment in response to
post
Un produit des Lumières!
comment in response to
post
I suspect our elite is no worse than the products of the Grandes Ecoles and those terrible people I come across in St Germain en Laye.
Our real problem is our history. We just cannot 'get over it'.
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/pri...
comment in response to
post
'O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!'
Robbie Burns, the great enlightenment poet.
comment in response to
post
Starmer is like rabbit caught in the headlights with these charlatans and rabble-rousers.
comment in response to
post
He should follow Baldwin's example and take on the fascist media.
comment in response to
post
It's frightening how Farage beguiles gullible minds, and it is equally frightening that Starmer seems unable to confront this issue honestly.
And Cameron called the referendum to 'save' the Tory Party.
He really is the worst sort of Etonian. Greedy, entitled, and oh so complacent.
comment in response to
post
It creates unsustainable inequality, which ruins lives and encourages populism.
comment in response to
post
The Argentinians were the aggressors, but vanquishing them gave many Brits delusions of grandeur.