tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24269158545843224542024-02-20T22:00:27.231+00:00paolabiblogWelcome to the private club of my mindPaolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-74832204264269078072020-07-10T10:52:00.002+01:002020-07-11T10:29:59.901+01:00The Spring Without Humans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you found the words yet? I don't even mean the <i>right words</i>, but good enough ones to wrap your mind around the contour of the experience, to tentatively feel its jagged edges, roughly intuiting its dimensions?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't. Embarrassing, I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you are known in your circle for your love of scribbling, people assume you spend your life perched over experience with your pen in the air, poised to write it all down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are you writing about it? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You must write about it, s</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">urely !" </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">people advised, asked, admonished or cooed, sounding baffled when I confessed that I haven't, I couldn't. Because what is 'it', in this case? How can you write about it if you can't name it? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are no words yet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, here are <i>some </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">words, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">if you insist</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Not the definitive account for all times, not the official Covid Chronicle of this spring without humans, but some scattered impressions of what it has been like for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's deal with the big ticket item first. Once singing Italians on balconies gave way to clapping Brits on doorsteps constant, large scale, unrelenting death stopped being tragic and grotesque and became strangely normalised, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">becalmed, discussed in reasonable BBC-like cadences, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">anaesthetised</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> if you will, ventilated with facts which turned out to be mostly lies, which in turns generated fortifying, morale-rousing indignation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's as if, and I am fully aware of how crazy this will sound, but bear with me, it's as if actual people <i>stopped</i> dying once they were dying in their thousands. They were counted, not named, then weighted not counted, and then they disappeared not just from the drone-patrolled streets and squares, the empty stadiums, shopping malls and theatres, the goat infested high streets and dolphin ridden canals but from the news itself, slipping </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like sand grains through the fingers of my comprehension, leaving a burnt residue, an aftertaste of sadness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Only one death became suddenly and disconcertingly real. My father's passing more than a year ago was, in pandemic-shaped retrospect, idyllically peaceful. We held his hand to the last. There was a huge, lovely funeral. People could hug and everything. But I find I can't stop thinking, dreaming and crying about him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Compared to many, to most, I've had a lovely indoor holiday, unmarred by illness or scarcity or real fear. Yet the lack of agency engendered by the lock-down leaked a soporific poison into my mind and body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I slept well, mostly, but dreaded waking up to another empty, sunny day </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of lavish pink blossoms exploding unobserved by human eyes. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It felt to me at times as if my husband and I had already</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> died and were starring in our own version of The Good Place, against a backdrop of pastel coloured nothingness without end. What was the point again? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I suffered acute bouts of productivity envy : all that bread baking and language learning, all that creativity unleashed - people shooting whole films on their phones, recording symphonies with remote orchestras, launching lip syncing comedy careers... Meanwhile I sat stupefied on my stoop each morning in mismatched pyjamas, sun on my face, a cooling coffee and a browning banana by my side, listening to bird song and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">sirens, more birdsong and more sirens while no planes flew overhead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got sick of staring at fuzzy people on screens. I felt a ghost in other people's machine on video calls where my greying hair and proliferating chins distracted me from the conversation. Audio calls and texts felt less fraught, less dangerously intimate. I wanted to be in touch, to feel connected but with no homeschooling of non-existent children to contend with and no job to go to I had less and less to say. I could not read more than a page or two of any novel I started - although I listened to a few while walking obsessively in the park - and if i could no longer read or write or take pleasure in my friends who was I really? Where was I? When would I get myself back?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As my world shrunk to my square I got to know my neighbours really well. I'd always vaguely known them and mostly vaguely liked them but in truth they were a blur in the busyness of my life in the <i>beforetimes</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, after months of ordering and distributing the shopping of several elderly residents I've come to actually love them with the love you can only feel when you come to know someone by the quality and rhythm of their most personal purchases, the only choices we each had left. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They ran the full gamut of western styles of consumption, from the bachelor surviving on sliced white bread and canned tuna to the health conscious hemp oil and kefir aficionado, to the flour obsessed couple next door whose asks became more and more war time-like as the weeks passed. Powdered mustard, anyone? Tinned beetroot? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Disconcertingly, no one over-seventy seemed to ever need toilet paper, of which there was a lively Whatsapp trade in the early stages among the under-forty with children. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most vulnerable seemed, by and large, the least afraid, serenely weeding, digging and planting for Britain</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in their tiny back gardens with their radios on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">No longer in a hurry, I was the one dropping by at their doorstep hoping for a chat, jumping at the chance to dispose of their recyclables, collect their medicines and help them organise octogenarian socially distanced birthdays. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't know what the future holds. No shit, right? But seriously, I have no sense of what I'll do, who I'll be for the rest of my life. This much I know in my bones: this <i>thing</i> we are going through and hopefully emerging from, this thing there are no proper words for yet will not have been a momentary pause, a punctuation mark. It will turn out to be the end of a whole chapter, the start perhaps of a whole new book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't simply pick up from where I left off and carry on, because I myself was in limbo, in transition, when everything stopped and the past now seems too remote to have ever been real and the future impossible to imagine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All I know is that I do want to wake up most mornings these days, and hope to soon find out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There’s an advert for a new Apple iPad being shown in cinemas at the moment which delivers an unwarranted, and to my mind cruel, blow to the plexus to anyone who’s been recently bereaved. If that includes you I urge you to get off your seat and leave for the duration if you don’t want to spend the first ten minutes of whatever jolly Christmas film you are there to see stifling sobs into your scarf and wiping snot with your bare hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It starts innocently enough - long minutes tracking the journey of a family of four across America (planes, trains, automobiles) to visit Grandpa. The iPad makes a few appearances along the way, being put to the traditional use of quieting the two squabbling little girls at various points by the weary parents. So far, so cliched. But this iPad is magic, you see, this iPad is different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We get to Grandpa’s. Something is not right - cue sad music. The house is cold, uninviting. The old man is grumpy and unsmiling. It turns out Grandma has recently died and Mum/Daughter is there to help Grandpa clear her closets and make sure he's eating right. The two little girls squabble on, to the irritation of all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Left alone with old family pictures and ancient video cassettes the girls get working on a project. On Christmas morning they unpack the iPad anew for Grandpa and their handiwork, it is revealed, consists of a childish PowerPoint charting the story of the young grandparents, the growing family, Grandma’s demise and so forth ending with a comforting picture of the family still together at Christmas, at least with the aid of a digital collage. See, Grandma is still here, smiling among us, it’s still us. When the old man’s scowl dissolves into tears so will you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Adverts have always made us cry to make us buy. But normal psychological manipulation tends to weaponise more positive human emotions, such as joy. Newborns gurgling, lovers getting together, friends reuniting. It’s still cheap, it’s still not great but it feels less exploitative somehow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Using imagined grief (a sentiment presumably still only tangential to the lives of your core customer demographic of young, busy, exasperated parents) to sell tablets strikes me as low for two reasons. The first is that you can throw money at just about anything else but not at grief. Retail therapy might help in a romantic breakup (although that's never been my experience), it can distract you from your mid-life crisis. But shiny new ‘stuff’ can’t assuage the howling sadness caused by the loss of a loved one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The second objection is more specific to the product in question. The ad pretends to be about love, showing and sharing love with the aid of clever technology. But Grandma, you see, is still dead. Grandpa is still all alone. Once your leave taking your expensive iPad with you he won’t even be left with the image of his family, complete with smiling Grandma, stuck to his fridge, to look at every so often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And all because your insufferably spoilt children can’t be fagged to do an actual collage, using paper, scissors and glue like normal humans. Or maybe they would. But where’s the profit for Apple in that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And since you can only bring down capitalism from within (if at all) I look forward to seeing the actor playing Grandad being hired by Ryan Raynolds <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a30157856/peloton-ad-parody-ryan-reynolds-aviation-gin/">for a new Aviation Gin ad</a>. The camera pans away from his dejected face to reveal him sitting in an untrendy bar, drinking himself to death surrounded by his elderly friends. "Drink up mate, have another one". And the pay off line. "Forget those fucking children!". That's an advert I'd toast to.</span></div>
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on a not particularly busy day, while processing the usual 150 to 200 emails
that flow into my inbox daily, I was inspired to click on one bearing the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"> I was in a philosophical
mood that day, contemplating as I had been doing the pointlessness of life in
general and the senseless wasting of my own particular life within the four
walls of that particular office. Could the email be the key of some spiritual
revelation, something, anything, that would encourage me to live with myself
for another day? It turned out to be, of course, the title of a seminar on
internal communications.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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figures.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it
has taken place, as G B Shaw is widely believed to have observed one hundred
year before Twitter was even invented. But even absent the cacophony of social
media George Bernard would only have had to spend a couple of hours inside <i>any
office</i> to come to his conclusion. </span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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Meetings. Meetings about meetings. Pre-meetings, meetings’ agendas and
meetings’ minutes. Hours, days of meetings. Short reports, memos,
grids and lists. Meeting notes. Relaying meetings to those who weren’t there,
email threads, whispered gossip about what happened and who said what. Box-ticking,
form-filling, feedback and postmortems to dissect how all of that
went.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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No decision is ever reached during a meeting, you understand. The first you
hear about a decision is two months after it was taken by someone in authority
without consulting anyone and you only find out when you get locked out by the
new security system or the website colour scheme turns acid green.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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By then, it is absolutely inappropriate to bring it up in a meeting.
That’s not what meetings are for. They are not about the past and they are
emphatically not about making things work better <i>going forward</i>. Or
foreseeing and mitigating real problems. Or averting possible crises.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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Meetings are about meetings.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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At the end of my working life I’ll be lucky if 20 pc of my time will
have been devoted to accomplishing the actual tasks I’ve been nominally paid to
do. By the time it’s all over (praise be to god) I will have spent almost
80 pc of my time as a scribe, a compiler of grids and assembler of notes as well
as ‘meat in the room’ for endless meetings that won’t result in any change,
unless it’s for the worse, due to the total breakdown of communication that is
the after effect and the leitmotif of the business of meetings.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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I’m not even angry about this, no longer scandalised or disappointed.
I’m simply exhausted. Talked out, minuted out, post-noted and
over-listed. Meetings, town halls, memos and complex email threads with an
ever-changing cast of 12 people in CC is how the office pond life – that layer
of mid-to -top level management whose job titles are completely impenetrable
and whose salary level is a daily slap in the face to the rest of the
workforce - justifies <i>its </i>existence internally.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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The rest of us, with real tasks, skills, goals and deadlines are just
audience, cyber witnesses, clerical courtiers, while our own, one, precious
life ebbs slowly away.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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Good luck robots. Do your worst.</span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-15028842617940351342019-11-20T13:19:00.003+00:002020-09-10T15:28:18.173+01:00The Upside Down is where shame has gone to die<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stranger things are happening, people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thirty years from the fall of the Berlin wall, it turns out it's possible to gaslight a nation, spread disinformation and anxiety, foment division and hatred and get people to vote for, indeed clamour for, policies which go against their own best interest without a single shot fired or protester tortured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A willingness and facility to lie, a dormant media (more interested in politics as horse race with occasional televised gladiatorial combats than in thoroughly researching topics and preparing for interviews) and the sheer quantity of information available are all it takes to dull people's critical faculties. Throw in a visible enemy (why not immigrants, that always work!) et voila' your got yourself some tasty, freeze-dried culture war where brains should be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Twitter, sure, FB, digital tricks and dodgy Russian money - all have contributed to transform our public landscape in a murky Upside Down where white is black and everything ends up grey, fluffy, unsubstantial, un-pin-down-able. Some of these things are technological and new, some, like corruption, have been with us forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But shame is what seals the deal and our fate in this particular political junction; or rather, the absence of it. The death of shame is the water you add to the instant coffee of ideological obsession. My bastard is better than your bastard. My liar is more honourable than your liar. My Islamophobe is classier than your anti-Semite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the last couple of days alone we have witnessed the spectacle of the Conservative Party Press Office Twitter account disguising itself as some neutral fact-checking outfit for the duration of the leaders' ITV debate to propagandise for Johnson, then coolly reverting to its usual title: job done! A bizarre post-propaganda move that proved too much for Twitter itself (and they do have strong stomachs that lot) but is still currently being defended by the Conservative front bench on the ground that 'Labour lies need exposing' and the truly Kafkaesque 'no-one gives a toss about social media'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have myself just got involved (against my best human and comms judgement) in an exhausting twitter exchange with somebody claiming that it's Remainers' scaremongering that's driving much needed EU health professionals away, even while simultaneously claiming that there's way more EU doctors now than in 2016 but there's still shortages because of all the EU immigrants seeking treatment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do people hear themselves? The lack of shame makes us deaf to reason itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where is the line? Is there even a line anymore, as our American friends may well have asked when a self-styled pussy-grabber was elected President thanks to evangelicals' and conservative women's votes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It takes the hapless Prince Andrew, a man so genuinely clueless, so terminally privileged, so comically un-relatable that few can be bothered to rise to his defence, to show us the faint outline of where the line now is. So here we go: <i>when in doubt, don't accept the lavish hospitality of a convicted paedophile: it looks really bad!</i> And if you have done (we are all human) for goodness' sake don't talk about it and hope the whole unseemly row will blow over soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course secret, as yet undiscovered, paedophiles are still fine - we don't want to get too puritanical now. As for paedophilia itself, the jury is out of course. I mean, it depends, doesn't it, on who's doing what to whose children, in exchange for what type of incentive and whether a newspaper is about to find out. A blanket policy of revulsion and unconditional censure is, frankly, tantamount to communism.</span><br />
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-53749000541086755702017-10-03T18:17:00.001+01:002020-07-12T16:42:57.023+01:00Las Vegas - Can we stop asking why and focus on the how?<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;"><font size="5">
Feather dusters don't kill people. Nor do garden hoses. As a rule. That's not what they are for, anyway, and therefore they're quite clunky and inefficient as means of mass slaughter. Although, sure, a sufficiently driven and nasty human of average intelligence can use just about any tool for the purpose of killing. So yes, in that narrow sense alone, it's <i>people </i>who kill people.</font></div>
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But guns, and particulary semi-automatic weapons, are built with the sole purpose of maiming and killing. This is what they do, efficiently so. So when nearly 60 people are killed and 500 gravely injured by a single <i>pensioner</i> taking aim at them from a hotel window it seems reasonable to conclude that it's in fact the guns who should be the protagonists here, the salient detail, not whatever obsession, ideological delirium or personality disorder affected the human who pulled the trigger. A retired accountant with no army background. A nobody. Another angry old man - among many other angry men, young men, middle aged ones, old ones, men of every hue and colour and background - with an inflated sense of grievance, or destinity, or of his own importance. Who gives a shit <i>why</i>? How is finding out <i>why</i> going to stop this happenig again? </font></div>
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In Britain, Italy and in pretty much every other modern democracy we are replete with catankeous old men and angry young men, narcisists and wife beaters. There's no scarcity of nasty, violent, self-obsessed men (<i>ooops</i>, I mean people, of course!). Yet an old man would have a tough time murdering and maiming on that scale, in a matter of minutes, no matter how crazy or ideologically driven. </font></div>
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So, again, it turns out that it's the availability and prevalence of guns - not immigrants, not Muslims, not even terrorists (who can thankfully be quite clumsy with explosives) that causes people to be killed in their hundreds with this regularity and inevitability. G<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ive bad intentions, 'evil' , temporary insanity, male chauvinist pigs, you name it, a baseball bat and someone will get hurt but for a good old fashioned massacre you..... kinda need automatic weapons.</span></font></div>
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Today is not the time to have this conversation. The time was 15, 30 years ago before the US become so flooded with the bloody things that only <i>mass confiscation</i>, not restrictions on sales, is likely to make a substantial difference now. </font></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><font size="5">But still, going forward, you'd think it might be desirable to start mitigating against future senseless carnage <i>as soon and as much as bloody possible</i>, don't you? </font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><font size="5">Yet the country that forces the likes of me to declare we are not Nazi war criminals on entry and frowns on 120ml bottles of shampoo can't have that conversation. Its politicians' hands are tied, mainly with dollars, and its media is pitifully muted on the subject, so that its citizens come to believe they do live in the best/most rational of all possible worlds, like the starving North Koreans who think it's the rest of us who are having a tough time. (This reminds me of those ridiculous US commentators spewing nonsense against 'Socialised Medicine'. Ask any European if they mind NOT having to choose between between eating and paying the morgage or getting cancer treatment. Go on, see what they say.). </font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><font size="5">In the cacophony of bullshit platitudes about prayers and unity and resilience and the courage of first responders the NRA ayatollahs still won't release their grip on the levers of US democracy. They didn't after first graders were felled at Sandy Hook, they won't do it now. They can afford to fuel several 9/11s every year with no consequence, no censure of any kind, barely a whisper of a timid debate. Policy makers can't even collect the right statistics on gun crime.</font></span></div>
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The ultimate form of terrorism, it seems to me, is when a mature democracy reduces its own citizens to the status of living target practice for the convenience of its gun industry. It's an awfully big gamble, even by Vegas standards.</font></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-7131511088135504712017-08-16T11:57:00.003+01:002020-07-12T16:43:29.306+01:00Opinions on shape of Nazis differ<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><font size="5">
This morning I heard Today's presenter John Humphrys ask BBC North American EditorJon Sopel whether there was any "factual truth, though, in the President's assertion that there was violence on the other side too".</font></div>
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So, to recap, your licence fee now pays for senior BBC journalists earnestly to discuss whether anti-racist protesters objecting to an armed and intimidating neo-Nazi and KKK invasion of the public space could be described as 'as violent', and therefore morally reprehensible if not morally equivalent to the Nazis themselves.</font></div>
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I'm no longer sure how John Humphrys would have covered the Second World War - Churchill's speeches say*, Bletchley Park*, the Resistance* - particularly under the editorship of Sarah Sands.</font></div>
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Reflexive neo liberal right-wingery, fueled by hatred of redistribution - oops, I meant the left - in any form, is now chasing its own tale, fouling its own patriotic foundation myth: we are better than them (enter any nationality/value here) because we fought the Nazis/at least we are not Nazis.</font></div>
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Fighting the Nazis is officially a dodgy pursuit not just in Trump's America but also in May's (Brexit) Britain.</font></div>
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*Rabble-rouser, Hackers' Central, violent extremists????</font></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-48732467518214293232017-07-28T13:09:00.003+01:002018-10-07T15:58:51.888+01:00Reasons why Britain will likely be utterly screwed in these EU negotiations - No 658<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bknik" data-offset-key="mq9c-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A year after its creation they've only just managed to appoint a Special Adviser to the Secretary of State (David "I don't carry notes" Davis) who is also his Chief of staff, meaning David "Notebooks are for losers. It's all 'up here', so it is!!" Davis has been without either all this time. The chap in question is a <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-davis-stewart-jackson-brexit-chief-of-staff-general-election-a7861891.html">Tory Brexiteer</a> who lost his seat at the last election- we'll glide over the symbolism there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But here's the thing: no one - or at least none of my contacts in various think-tanks, public affairs companies and Parliament - seems to know how you get in touch with people there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Needing to invite some top mandarins from DExEU to an event I resorted to calling their press office (it was the only number provided on the website) and was told they 'they think' the email addresses follow the pattern name.surname@dexeu.gov.uk but they could not confirm. I found another number for the Department on Dods' Vacher's Guide and proceeded to be connected to the very same press officer who told me they "don't have a receptionist" and to basically stop wasting her time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In desperation I called a number appearing on the bottom of an email (address @cabinetoffice.gov.uk) of a top DExEU civil servant who once took part in one of our events and the phone was answered by a Polish lady who announced I was speaking to the Cabinet Office. I tried to ascertain with her whether I should invite her boss with the @dexeu email address or a @cabinetoffice email address and she told me, somewhat flustered, to 'try both'. I was then passed on to a more senior colleague who said he thought the other top civil servants I was trying to reach were 'probably' at both addresses but he didn't know for sure because 'they hadn't been in touch for some time'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why would, after all, the office of the DExEU Director of Analysis ever wish to speak to the office of the DExEU Director of Market Access and Budget or the DExEU Director of Cross-Government Policy Coordination? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why would you make sure there was a receptionist on duty at all times and a streamlined, coherent suite of email addresses, making it easy for MPs, stakeholders or god forbid, European apparatchiks or even expert riffraff to reach the Department by phone or email during the gigantic negotiations which are its sole reason to exist? </span></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-25559498344162386992017-01-26T13:08:00.000+00:002017-03-05T07:43:07.760+00:00Scenes from (the end of) a Marriage<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484905312514_6040" style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You got me under false pretenses. How was I to know that by walking to that church, having invited our families and friends, by reciting those words and exchanging those rings I would be MARRIED to you? I thought we were getting a curry, or something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I want out. And when I go, I'll stay gone. I've had enough of your shrill, demanding ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #454545;">1) We can come to an amicable understanding in next to no time - say the length of a rumba on Strictly? </span><span style="color: #454545;">This really should be a breeze because, when all is said and done, it's in your interest to give me exactly what I want as you need me much more than I need you. Or...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2) .....I'll come round</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> in the dead of night with a Kalashnikov, kick your door in and shoot </span><i style="color: #454545; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">myself </i><span style="color: #454545; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in the foot right in front of you. You won't like that, will you? Think of all the blood and the gore... And I'll refuse to go to hospital and I'll just limp on my bloodied stump for the rest of my life just to SHOW YOU!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #454545;">Look, before we met I had 'dated' most of the rest of the world, whether they liked it or not. </span><span style="color: #454545;">I'll be a very hot commodity</span><span style="color: #454545;"> indeed when I'm back on the market. Just saying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, really, there's nothing to this. It's a lark. A doddle. A bit of a joke, even. Things will both exactly the same and much better than before. Or Armageddon. Depending. No way of saying. Can't be sure. But it will be your fault either way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After re-posting the first image on FB I had a polite but unsettling exchange of views with a distant acquaintance who holds very different views from mine but has never interacted with any of the serious articles I've posted on the referendum or conversations I've generated about it. The joke though, was too much. The joke, she protested, was "unbelievable smearing by pro-Remain smug elites." (She left out 'metropolitan', I assume in her eagerness to make her indignation known.) </span></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-62489282921312890192016-03-04T11:50:00.003+00:002016-03-12T15:50:15.803+00:00Greenwich Mean Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial"; line-height: 16px;">I immediately set to work to write a warm, light, optimistic novel about a bunch of thirthy-somethings looking for love, meaning and fulfilment and finding it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial"; line-height: 16px;">It was to be a counterpoise to my first novel, a desperately dark comedy of manners, about a bunch of twenty-somethings led astray by a malevolent close friend who ends up destroying their lives. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial"; line-height: 16px;">Two years later the first draft of Point Hill was a less than jolly affair: war, ghosts, train crashes, broken families and dark secrets. It really wasn't my fault: the three protagonists came to life and seized control of the plot, stubbornly refusing to drive it towards the desired happy ending.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #32363f; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">My novel is now available on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Point-Hill-Paola-Buonadonna-ebook/dp/B01CIBZJZO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1457087043&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, and its original setting feels somewhat historical now. This is a world before 9/11 , the war on terror and smart phones. A world where it was just about possible for a teacher (or indeed a freelance journalist) to buy a house in Greenwich, something that feels so ludicrous now that I had to resist the temptation to change that element of the plot. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #32363f; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">The past, in other words, is another country. But so is our individual past, come to think of it. I look of photos of me from that time, re-read diary entries and I do remember what it felt like to be so young and so frightened and so strong, brimming with creativity and anger. I remember but I can never go back. The</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial"; line-height: 16px;"> present where I live now is my version of what a good life can be for me. I've had to let go of all other possible lives.</span><br />
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-73127917033797899532016-01-19T16:38:00.000+00:002016-01-19T16:38:38.111+00:00Four reasons why the UK referendum is a lost opportunity for real debate on Europe<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #575d67; font-family: robotoregular, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">That said, I would argue that the referendum is turning out to be a lost opportunity to have a serious discussion about reforms that would be helpful to the whole of Europe. I think there are four main reasons for this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having commissioned a long and expensive sector by sector public audit of the balance of power between the UK and the EU, last year the government<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/28/lords-accuse-tories-burying-eu-powers-review" style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word; color: #1b9de0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">quietly buried the result of the review</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and no public discussion of its conclusions has been held since. The reason? Who can tell. Perhaps the £5 million it cost were considered small change even at a time of supposed austerity. But it’s worth noting that it contained not a single recommendation for powers to be ‘returned’ to the UK, in any of the 32 sectors which submitted evidence. So much for the intolerable interference of the Brussels federal super-state.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Still, having called for a new deal from Europe to put to the British people, Number 10 had to belatedly produce a list of ‘demands’, some of which seem to have been plucked out of thin air to address non-existent problems (such as benefit tourism) with unworkable solutions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the UK Prime Minister remains the best advocate for Britain staying in, so the theatre surrounding his renegotiation feat - a drama performed for the exclusive sake of the one third of voters who are still undecided - has pre-empted real debate on concrete measures that could reform Europe for the better. Pro-Europeans, even if political opponents, will have to pretend that what he ‘gets’ out of Brussels will constitute a radical change for the better in our relationship with the EU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The referendum currently dominates the news, its repercussions are all-encompassing, but the debate, so far, has not been, far from it. In fact the coming vote seems to be having the opposite effect, polarising the public discourse in an unhelpful black and white way. One side claims Europe is a terrible idea and thoroughly unreformable. The other side concentrates mainly on the dangers of leaving the EU, rather than what sort of Europe might be worth having.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Self-censorship vs aggressive victimhood</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dynamics of the referendum debate itself are actively muzzling many pro-Europeans, who feel that any criticism they might express about how Europe works or any vision for a better Europe will be seized by the other side, defending in the process a status quo few people actively love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The outers have no such qualms: their rhetoric of loud, aggressive victimhood (taking our country back, getting rid of the Brussels yoke etc) belies a complete lack of vision for what life outside would look like. So far the media circus has focused on the minutiae of the renegotiation – no one is (yet) systematically asking hard hitting, probing questions about the kind of country Britain would be outside the EU and what relationship it will have with a presumably still unreformed EU in the throes of its worse existential crisis.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The official campaign</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally Stronger In, the cross-party organisation that hopes to become the official campaign for In, seems strangely paralysed – poised between paranoia and inaction. The tone of its communication is negative, focusing on threats and dangers. It has alienated many natural supporters by ignoring any other pro-European groups and communities, hosting no information about them or about what the EU is or does. Its spokespeople are very much denizens of the Westminster bubble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Theirs is a thankless, gargantuan task and I have no doubt they are doing the best they can. They might even succeed. But it all feels far from inspiring - in fact it feels a bit dismal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Never, it seems to me, has Europe been mentioned more and explained and discussed less. It does not bode well for a process which is about to hand the British people one of the most important geopolitical decisions of the next few years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">This is an extract from a longer piece published on </span></strong><a href="http://esharp.eu/debates/the-uk-and-europe/four-reasons-why-the-uk-referendum-is-a-lost-opportunity-for-real-debate-on-europe"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">E!Sharp</span></strong></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Life drawing for the terrified</i> was the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> name of one of the classes I found listed in a booklet of creative
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had picked it up hoping to find a safe and anodyne valve
for me to give vent to certain urges, a methadone prescription to my heroin
addiction if you like. Perhaps you could try painting, I said to myself. Yoga
certainly didn’t do it. Pilates was boring, pottery-making too messy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The title of the class made me smile. It was the hyperbole,
of course: what’s so terrifying about
drawing, for heaven’s sake? But then my friend, answer me this: what is so terrifying about writing, the
secret, shameful addiction I was trying to overcome but that was still giving
me the shakes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I never joined the class. Fuck life drawing, I mean, let’s
be serious. But today I want to try and answer that question, before courage fails me one more time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So here we go. Stop vacuuming now. You’ve already rinsed all
the dishes. Sock pairing? Really? Sit down and write. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s time. What are you afraid of? The worst is guaranteed
to happen, the hour and the day written on some cosmic stone. You will die and
after a few short years no one will be alive who will remember you. No glory
and no shame. Nothingness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But there’s a here, still, and a now, still, in which your
thoughts can be turned into written words, recorded, fixed for a fleeting
moment, one hundred years or however long the digital storage system currently
in use will last. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No papyrus for you, no faded actual words, on ancient actual
paper. So, you see, there is no need for those words to be worthy of
immortality. Besides, many a laundry list has unaccountably survived, emerged
into our modern hands through the dark tunnels of history even as the entire contents
of the library of Alexandria were lost. The stele from which the Rosetta stone came
off was after all some boring administrative decree. Hardly Aristotle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Turn off the news. Stop humming that same stupid tune in a
loop (which, by the way drives your dear husband crazy). Close that fridge door.
Now. If the answer is <i>‘Why, more cheese!’</i> the question is not worth asking. Sit down and write. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do it for yourself, as you did when you were eight years old
and you embarked on the first of a number of super-secret, personal diaries. Two
and a half decades of it in fact. The point was not whether you had enough that
was new or original or dramatic to say - the point was to record what was going
through your head, what you were feeling, that being the only consciousness you
were ever going to inhabit, the only self you would ever be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When and how did it happen? Why did I start living my live
unexamined? What shyness, what ghastly self-consciousness or self-loathing
stopped me wanting to pay attention to that internal voice, to record its wanderings,
its enchantments and its discontents? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wrote, furiously, through my teens, twenties and early thirties,
through many adventures, a deep depression and constant loneliness. In fact I wrote three book-length things
that I sometimes absentmindedly call books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I only got round to upload one on
Amazon last year, a huge act of defiance towards my current cowed, voiceless
middle-aged self. I wrote and wrote and then. And then I stopped. I don’t know
why. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All I remember was the notebooks were getting smaller, their
covers more elaborate but the entries fewer and farther between. Then nothing. </span></div>
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stopped annotating books, storing away clever phrases from articles, cutting
out pictures and filing half crumpled scraps of paper filled with doodles and urgent,
single underlined words which were the secret passwords to a short story, a chapter,
a diary entry, a poem which I may or may not write. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I stopped recording dreams
(an activity that, in truth, I only ever engaged in for one year and became too
bewildering and anxiety-inducing to continue). I stopped noting down
conversations overheard or ideas of effective ‘scenes’ between characters I already
knew or had not yet invented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look, I’m a still a journalist, sort of. I write the occasional column. I blog, as one does, well,
as everybody does, just more infrequently. I obsessively update my ‘status’ on
a variety of social media platforms with all sorts of witty and profound little
asides. A recent job had me penning op-eds
in other people’s names. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do all these things, constantly, all the time, and
sometimes, absentmindedly, I describe them as ‘writing’. But I don’t <i>write</i> anymore. I don’t know why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The answer I seek might be a few paragraphs up. It has
to do with the internal monologue, the voice (not Voices, you understand,
nothing like that), and the difference between hearing it, which I can’t help,
not while I’m alive and sentient, and choosing to pay attention to it, which is
what the process of writing essentially is, a conscious choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have often heard it said about some of my favourite
writers (often by means of their own pen) that they have no choice but write.
Writing <i>is who they are</i>, not a means
to an end, but their way to exist in the world. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All the great diarists share
this marvellous curse, this great, consoling affliction - Joan Didion, Virginia
Woolf, Hilary Mantell and many countless others I love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whether they simply pour
it into actual diaries (there always are diaries, they are the shadow, the
footprint, the fingerprint of the writer) or into reportage, novels, plays, what's </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">constant is the writing. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not the publishing, not the
being known for or paid for it, not even the accomplishing of final products that
can be given a name, a definition - my latest poem, my new short story. </span></div>
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is, in essence, always flow and fragment. From time to time we hack from it a more solid, denser object and call it Rosetta, or War and Peace. But don’t be
fooled, the writing is an endless tune, thoughts in a loop, with no
final chapter or clever resolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, the affliction I described, the <i>having</i> to write which makes people into writers, whether anyone
notices or not, means having to pay attention to the internal voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My internal voice, my stream of consciousness has a mean
streak in it, you see? What I finally seem to have learnt in time is to tune it
out, for long stretches at a time and in fact for long as I possibly can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
voice, make no mistake, takes no notice of my clever wheeze, and continues to
lash me mercilessly whenever it can. But I sure trained myself out of sitting
in quiet rooms actively trying to listen to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With time and maturity and a greater awareness of the world around me,
the voice has also changed - for the worse - and I have duly strengthened my
self-preserving mechanism to tune it firmly out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The voice is not just filled
with contempt at my failings. It is no longer just a grief-stricken, panicked
commentary on the immensity of my disappointments, the mediocrity of my aspirations,
the circularity of my setbacks, the basic the fallacy of all my choices. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mixed in with that, and with the wonder, the love and the excitement it is
still faithfully chronicling, the voice increasingly drones on about the horror
of the world we live in. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, as I do live in this world, as I’m still here, now and
not shut away in a cave, I am aware of the beheadings and the mass rapes, the
hammers taken to priceless artefacts in desert cities. I know about climate
change and people trafficking and the slave labour hidden in any object I see
or buy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I often find myself talking about the slow motion collapse of the European
dream, the annihilation of Syria, the pauperization of Greece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I shake my head at the misery of each new devastating earthquake and, as people around me start dying of awful diseases,
I dutifully make donations and sign up to charities which attest to the horror
of this world in all its grim glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am more than aware of it, believe me, and the voice
droning on and on about it, almost as the expense of anything else, doesn’t help. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I’m discovering that, on top of my general policy of avoidance, I’d do anything
to keep that sense of revulsion and powerlessness at bay. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'd do anything not to have to think about it any longer than for a few seconds at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At first I was not good enough for the world. Now I still
suck and the world is black chaos without sense or meaning, without an
arc of progress or any hope of justice to soften the blow. I must fear, at some level, that life once
examined may drive me finally mad. Life drawing for the terrified, indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I hum out loud, eat another slice of cheese, drink more
wine, rinse those glasses, pair those socks. I don’t want to think about it,
listen to those thoughts long enough to write, to write anything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wish there could be a way to get it back, that nice,
innocent compulsion to listen and to record, to write for the sake of writing.
I wish it were so, as I’m beginning to suspect that I too define myself that
way and that therefore I have lived less as my truer self in the past ten
years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have found lasting love and better jobs in those years, I
have felt much safer, better looked after, more prosperous and secure. But less
like me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My truer self has faded to the point where only the stitches of the
pattern show, the neuroses, the obsessions and the anxieties - or if you prefer
my laugher, my predilections, or certain turns of phrase of mine- while all colour and
shape seems gone. No amount of painting, hill walking or pottery seems likely to bring it back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m 46. Everything aches. Everything, I mean it. I’m growing
physically larger and larger, making cool, disdainful detachment a harder pose to
pull, as I waddle, sweating and clumsy, my mother frowning back at me from
every mirrored surface. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s also somewhat harder to hide, aside from the
virtual hiding of the not-really-writing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What am I waiting for? Really, what
is the point of wasting any more time pretending?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe the answer is to start seeing this life, this one life
I have, what’s left of it, as less of a personal business and more of an objectively interesting experience,
like when I was eight I suppose, and the wonder/self-consciousness ratio was at
a healthier setting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe what allows those writers to take note of the voice,
to feel the fear and write it down anyway, is a choice to see life not as a trial,
not as a short yet endless ego-balancing , a face-saving, face-losing see-saw,
the careful, exhausting recalibration of desires and dreams in the face of one’s cruel mediocrity and of the gentle passing of time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe they manage life through a viewfinder, maybe the pen keeps the smoke and the smell at bay. Life as reportage, as unflinching, unblinking, unblushing copy, the detached, bemused account of a
passionately feeling observer. Horror included, warts and all. The writing it
down, the putting it ‘to paper’ as it were, an exorcism too, perhaps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I realise now (or perhaps I remember?) that re-writing and
re-reading is what used to quieten the voice awhile. Listening back to myself as
expressed ‘on paper’ silenced it, for a while, giving me a brief, but perfectly dependable and repeatable experience of completion, of what I still, absentmindedly, call happiness.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-84458823787247106332015-05-19T16:34:00.000+01:002015-05-20T11:08:56.769+01:00What I learned when I became the Katie Hopkins of the liberal pro-EU left (for a day)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wrote a short <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/11614826/Im-not-British-but-I-live-here-and-pay-my-taxes.-Shouldnt-I-have-a-vote-in-the-EU-referendum.html#disqus_thread">comment piece</a> for the Telegraph on the question of franchise in the forthcoming EU referendum. So far so yawn, right? Except that, I soon discovered, nothing angers Telegraph readers and assorted UKIP trolls more than seeing a slightly unconventional opinion pertaining to something EU-related conveyed by someone with a foreign byline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You want to dismiss food banks as a lifestyle choice? Go ahead, be <i>their</i> guest. Offers to machine-gun refugees back to Libya? It's a bit of a laugh, innit? But try and explain the sense of unfairness felt by many long term UK residents from the EU in being denied a vote in the In/Out poll, which would have a pretty enormous impact on their future, and you'll soon unleash a (misspelled, ungrammatical) zombie apocalypse, my friend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The negative reactions fell roughly into three categories: the really dim trolls spluttering with incoherent indignation, the 'aggressive victimhood' outers ("How dare, HOW DARE you scaremonger about EU citizens being deported?" Er...I didn't. "How dare, HOW DARE you try to subvert democracy with your DEMANDS??" Er..what?), and the righteous whiners ("Well, if you want to vote so much/like this country so much why don't you become a British citizen, eh? Ehh??" Er...that's what I, like, tried to explain in the piece?). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So far, so fun and games. No threats or violent language or anything. A light day at the office, really, for any aspiring Katie Hopkins of the liberal, pro-EU left. But on a more serious note, here are some interesting considerations that seem to me to emerge from the strength of the reaction and the nature of the criticism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First of all the 'aggressive victimhood' outers are spoiling for reasons to cry foul at whatever decision is taken about the running of this Referendum, as a dress rehearsal, one imagines, for the gigantic cry of IT'S NOT FAIR AND IT SHOULDN'T COUNT which would follow a majority vote in favour of staying in. The question, the franchise, the date, these will all be battlegrounds on which they will fight to the death to make sure the vote is skewed as much as possible in favour of a NO answer or they WON'T PLAY ANYMORE and WILL TELL THEIR MUMMIES.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Secondly, most outers of all flavours are absolutely incensed by and terrified at the prospect of non-Brits skewing the result of the vote. I find that fascinating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let us assume that by non -Brits they mean just EU citizens (none of my critics had a convincing answer as to why Irish & Commonwealth citizens should be allowed to vote on the Referendum, which, as things stand, they are). Of non Irish EU citizens, only 1.3 to 1.5 million are on the electoral register for the local and European Elections and only a fairly predictable proportion of them would bother to use their vote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even assuming those would then vote en masse in favour of staying would it really be enough to skew the Referendum result? Really? Wouldn't that indicate that, instead of the 'groundswell' of public opinion which is meant to have justified, indeed demanded that the country sets off on this Referendum adventure, support for leaving the EU is in fact a wafer-thin construct, a vocal minority view fanned by a majority of the print media? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That in turns would mean that Britain will have spent an inward-looking decade tearing itself apart over nothing, whilst all the while haemorrhaging influence in Brussels and clout and visibility in the wider world.(Ooopsie!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A final observation is that the pro-EU side should perhaps abandon its higher principles, its reliance on reasoned arguments and verifiable facts and stats in favour of a little emotional terrorism and scaremongering of its own. No one else is going to play nice here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pro-EU side could, for instance, mount an emotional case for preventing anyone old enough to have voted in the 1975 Referendum from voting again now, unless 16 and 17 year olds are also given a vote. After all the oldies' own future will not be affected by the result of the vote whilst it will impact disproportionately on 16 and 17 year olds, for better or for worse, for many decades to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the very least an army of self-involved, whiney teen-agers should be recruited for a loud and proud IT'S NOT FAIR franchise campaign. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It doesn't hurt ( AND IT'S NOT MY FAULT, ALL RIGHT?) that they tend to also be more pro-European. Let's show the 'aggressive victimhood' outers that two can play this game. </span><br />
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-89650594655024028572015-05-11T18:21:00.000+01:002015-05-20T11:10:59.367+01:00Gone – and back – in 60 seconds: time to show Farage the door once and for all<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are some of the things Nigel Farage, the yeah-but-no-but former/future/actual leader of Ukip (oh do keep up!) likes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nigel likes a good piss-up, media attention (not media scrutiny, mind), bantering with sympathetic TV hostesses on Loose Women (‘Oh Nigel, you are terrible!’), rabble-rousing on Question Time, finger-waving his way through simplistic arguments while glossing over what he can’t explain (‘Yes, Nigel, but in what way would we be better off actually losing access to a market of 450 million people?’) .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He likes bashing ‘Brussels’ and ‘Europe’ as it they were evil real people, not monikers for a set of institutions Britain has helped develop and contributes to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He likes blaming others, EU citizens working and paying tax in the UK for one thing, for almost everything he can think of, including – rather parodically even for him – for making him late <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-blames-traffic-delay-4765128" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ef3341; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to his own fundraiser</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He positively loves banter, a chance to harangue, joke and provoke – it’s all theatre to him, whether it’s claiming that 29 million Bulgarians and Romanians are heading over here or that the NHS is buckling under the cost of caring for foreign HIV patients. Like a sixth-form debater, he doesn’t seem to think real people are affected by what he says, as if not even Nigel could take Nigel completely seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is what Nigel does not like: turning up for work at the European parliament, sitting through committee meetings, writing reports and voting, despite being having been paid a handsome salary by EU taxpayers for the past 16 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He’s also famously pretty averse to justifying how he spends the expenses and allowances the EU gives him, as if EU taxpayers were an inferior subspecies of taxpayers and didn’t in fact very much include, you know, the British taxpayers of South Thanet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for professionalising his party – which, with four million votes at the last election represents a not inconsiderable slice of British society – Nigel will have a go, for a bit, if there’s nothing more pressing to do, but he cannot be expected to be on top of every racist, xenophobic or homophobic thing any of his lot says or does as there are only seven non-drinking hours in a day after all. Heck, he can’t even be bothered to think through his own resignation, making Ukip’s most senior female member – and this is a party not famous for hugging women close, at least for non-mating purposes – a laughing stock into the bargain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the real joke, as ever, is on the rest of us, the great unwashed, the simple sods who turn up to do the jobs we are paid to do, who don’t spend our working day parodying our very colleagues on YouTube, and who have to keep a very close tab on our stationery receipts lest Pam from accounts gets cross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A grown-up nation, served by the most sophisticated media in the world, has let this comedic mix of pub bore and Vicky Pollard dictate the terms of reference in the Europe debate. This must stop now, elastic-band resignation notwithstanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Britain deserves a grown-up debate about the advantages and drawbacks of its EU membership, conducted in an atmosphere of dialogue and truth-seeking, not bullying, trolling, scapegoating and intimidation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The coming referendum must be fought with facts and well-researched, calmly relayed arguments, not with name-calling and fisticuffs like a Friday-night pub brawl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One thing I’ll say for Nigel Farage: it must be exhausting acting like the nation’s sneering Id all of the time. Yes, he does deserve a holiday. I’d drive him to the airport myself but I don’t have a car – any volunteers?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This post was originally published on <a href="http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2015/05/11/gone-and-back-in-60-seconds-time-to-show-farage-the-door-once-and-for-all/">ProgressOnline</a></span></b></div>
Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-81462717987340095642014-11-20T14:34:00.002+00:002015-05-20T11:16:56.509+01:00Welcome to Reckless Britain: First they came for the Polish plumbers...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>(This little vignette was inspired by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/19/mark-reckless-immigration-row-rochester-byelection">Mark Reckless MP</a>, potato-head turncoat and world's most unlikely muse..)</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">First they came for the Polish plumbers. Then they came for the Romanian nurses, the Portuguese toiling in food processing and the young Italian baristas. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Off they went, group by group, back on those coaches and trains and planes (the French IT engineers were very sniffy about the ferries, the stuck-up frogs). By the time they were carting off middle-aged Mediterranean media & communications professionals you'd think I'd have seen the writing on the wall. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sure, I'd been wearing the regulation armband with the 12 yellow stars on a blue background. They make some really stylish ones these days and it seemed like a small ask, all things considered, a form of courtesy really, that I should make it possible for my fellow workers/commuters/shoppers/voters/audience members in the busy metropolis to identify me as an LEF (Legal European Foreigner). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Now my LEF Papers (birth certificate, NHS registration number, Residency Permit, National Insurance Registration, mortgage agreement, Rabies Certificate and last but not least my -laminated- job contract) are neatly packed and ready to go anywhere with me. And it seemed like a hopeful sign when the Documentation Zone Threshold was extended to journeys longer than 20 miles: the commute into work became a lot less tiresome without the folder, let me tell you. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So you see, I played by the rules, was understanding and patient. But fundamentally I didn't think they would ever come for me because - how shall I put it without blushing - I simply did not <i>know</i> I was an EU migrant. I thought I was an EU citizen. Not as good as a UK citizen, I grant you, but a benign subspecies which could operate on these shores, pay taxes, purchase property, work hard, marry a native whilst <i>still</i> not breaking any laws.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I did not, in all these years, saw myself as someone who had migrated to this country: this was the country I had chosen to live and work in out of 27 others that constituted the bit of the 21st century world that was my oyster. I never realised my taxes were such a bother to collect, or that my speaking Italian on my mobile </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">on crowded buses had traumatised so many, or that my annual GP appointment had put such a horrible strain on the NHS in my area. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So at the flick of the Brexit Switch, when LEFs where turned into EFs - European Foreigners - I was suddenly illegal without ever having fully realised that I was one of those nasty, cheating, grasping, oxygen-sucking, job-stealing, benefit-cheating, space-taking immigrants at all. </span></span><br />
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-1904410995777910192014-11-14T08:30:00.000+00:002014-11-16T17:49:36.400+00:00Europe's Space Odyssey shows what EU cooperation can achieve<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Will this week's comet landing triumph shift people's perceptions of Europe away from the tired clichés of bent bananas, faceless bureaucrats and benefit-thirsty migrants?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The coverage of the Rosetta mission has tended to focus on the astonishing complexity of the mission, and rightly so. It took ten years of research and preparations for the European Space Agency to launch the Rosetta satellite in 2004. It has taken this unmanned craft a further 10 years, and four billion miles, to reach the comet and send a lander, a little fellow the size of a fridge going by the name of Philae, successfully down on what is an irregularly-shaped, 2.5mile-long rock travelling at a speed of 40,000mph, after a couple of awkward bounces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What all the superlatives used about this achievement don't make clear is just how<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">improbable</em> if not impossible this mission would have been without the existence of a EU-funded European Space coordinating the work and sharing research with scientists in several countries operating in different languages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To deal with the budget first of all, ESA received £3.38billion in 2013, paid for in large part by the EU and its member states, with smaller contributions coming from Canada, Switzerland, Norway, and ESA candidate states. The budget for the Rosetta project was £1.1billion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not only is the money shared but so too the work - the ESA has centres all around the continent serving different purposes: astronauts are trained in Cologne; Mission Control is in Darmstadt; Research and Technology is based in Noordwijk; Earth Observations in Frascati, and Space Astronomy in Villanueva de la Cañada. All of these collective resources combine to create a co-operative organisation which is forward-looking, ambitious, and fundamentally European.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Researchers from <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/science/pssri/research/missions/rosetta/rosetta.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Open University's Centre for Physical and Environmental Sciences</a> worked with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to develop Ptolemy, an instrument which will make in situ isotopic measurements, since you ask - one of the many tools the Philae lander will use to analyse the comet. And OU researchers also had a hand in the development of MUPUS (Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface Science) which was led by a consortium of European scientists from Münster, Berlin, Warsaw, and Graz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">None of the nations involved could have hoped to achieve this goal single-handedly. None would even have attempted it. None of the international experts who came together would ever had a chance to be part of something this complex, enriching, fascinating and, yes, just plain exciting, without the European Space Agency. It is through the ESA that the UK Space agency gets a place at the table, or on the spacecraft, through the instruments developed by UK scientists, funded by taxpayers in Bristol, Boulogne and Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's cost us 10 years, millions of pounds and man-hours but the result of this amazing feat of European co-operation, fundraising, co-ordination and joint research is truly priceless.</span></div>
Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-74067846183810918862014-11-05T18:30:00.000+00:002017-03-05T07:48:21.412+00:00Take this from this EU migrant: we more than pay our way and this country would be much poorer without us<div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I first arrived in Britain, to complete my education at a Scottish university, I thought I would only stay three years. After all, mutual recognition of degrees among the (then) 12 European Union member states meant my qualification would be recognised back home in Italy. But then I found a job, and after that a better job, in the field I wanted to work in. Eventually I bought a place and married a Briton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Twenty-five years later here I still am, still enjoying living in this country except for one thing. While I used to think of myself as an EU citizen, now, because of the increasingly hostile debate about the EU in this country, I discover I am in fact an immigrant - a word dripping with all sorts of negative connotations in an increasingly toxic public debate dominated and fanned by Ukip's agenda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So are my fellow EU immigrants and I such a huge burden to this country? Today the news is dominated by a new, very serious <a href="http://www.cream-migration.org/files/FiscalEJ.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">piece of research by UCL </a>on the fiscal effects of migration into the UK from 1995v to 2011. The report's findings are stark and unequivocal: EU migrants have consistently paid more into the system than they have taken out. Their net contribution for the past 10 years - that is the taxes they paid minus the services and benefits they received - nears £5billion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is no small change, 'back-of-the-sofa'-type sum. It is serious money contributing to keep British citizens in the style of welfare and service provision to which they are accustomed. If all EU immigrants left tomorrow their departure would leave a gaping hole in Britain's public finances, to say nothing of course of shrinking productivity, businesses put out of work by skills shortages at one end of the spectrum and seasonal produce left rotting in the fields at the other end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the UCL publication is just the latest in a long list of authoritative reports - be it from the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, or the Office for Budget Responsibility - to state that EU migrants are net contributors and not the scroungers and benefit cheats they are often depicted to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nor, contrary to popular belief, are we all scrabbling on the minimum wage, unfairly competing with natives for unskilled jobs. The NHS, one of the biggest employers in the world, relies hugely on EU migration: 11 per cent of all staff in the NHS are not UK nationals, a figure that rises to 26 per cent when looking at doctors only. Among the top 10 exporters of NHS staff, five are EU countries: Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">EU migrants are generally young (85 per cent of migrants from Eastern Europe are under 40), well-educated (more EU migrants than Britons have university degrees), and serious about their job-seeking efforts (EU migrants are 45 per cent less likely to claim benefits than Britons).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And not all are here to work, of course. In 2012-13, 125,000 students from across the EU followed in my footsteps and came to the UK to study. This is good for UK universities, which make a lot of money from EU students, and good for society at large, as many with desirable skills and knowledge will go on to make a significant contribution in this country in fields like science and technology, boosting innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Consider also that EU freedom of movement is a two-way street: UK citizens also travel to other EU countries to study, to work, and to retire. Thousands of UK students benefit every year from the Erasmus programme, which offers grants to study elsewhere in the EU. 14,572 Brits took advantage of that in 2013/14. More generally, according to government estimates nearly two million Brits live elsewhere in the EU, which is nearly the same amount of EU migrants living in Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After months of handwringing by all political sides -and plenty of policy-based evidence making -what we desperately need now is some leadership from the mainstream parties on the issues that really make people feel worried and insecure, and make vulnerable to UKIP's base, xenophobic rhetoric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They should deal with the real problems caused by uneven distribution of resources and services being under pressure. It's called planning and it tends to be way more effective than running around like headless chicken, latest polls in one hand, megaphone in the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They should come down hard on gang masters who exploit low-paid workers, whether native or immigrant. We can and should keep better track of people's movements and therefore adequately prepare so there is not an undue pressure on public services. Exit controls or registration requirements exist in other countries and could be used in Britain too. Benefit entitlements can be tightened and deliberate abuse - minuscule though it is by all accounts - can be stamped down on.</span></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-7649969205705659912014-10-03T09:30:00.000+01:002014-11-16T18:23:48.027+00:00The Daily Mail's front page today <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, if this latest comms gig doesn't work out I think I have plan B in place. Yes, B for bracelets. Stylish, elasticated bracelets. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before the Mouse showed me how to make one, during a recent visit, I was a purchaser of Loom Bands and a 'spectator' of Loom Banding. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now I've crossed the line, I have walked into the mirror, and gone bandtastic. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">These things are compelling, compulsive, comfortable to wear and so therapeutic to make! And while, technically, it will be hard to elicit, er, an actual living out of this banding craze I feel I have already earned a lot out of it as an act of learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Weaving little coloured elastic bands together in a way that would never have occurred to me, to obtain these cheerful, deeply satisfying little objects, is the first thing my nephew, in all of his 10 years on earth, has ever taught me how to do. I now look forward to at least four decades of practical and theoretical wisdom from this new source of knowledge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Readers of this blog know I fully expected to have to rely on him in my dotage to adjust my teleportation machine or help me change my replaceable organs. I just didn't expect the learning would start this early - and concern, tiny, analogue, 20th century elastic bands.</span></div>
Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-70834955976801391092014-09-08T12:00:00.000+01:002014-11-16T17:41:59.481+00:00Trying to sell Brexit? Better not make it sound like self-harm<div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is there life after (out of) the EU? Well, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of course</em> there is. Those among us who are worried about losing the benefits of EU membership, or fear Great Britain becoming an insignificant mid-range power that nobody listens to need not fret, according to the newest <a href="http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/SofteningTheBlow.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">report</a> by eurosceptic think-tank Civitas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">True, the report acknowledges, following submissions from a series of contributors, the consequences could be 'devastating'. But only for sectors ranging from agriculture and fisheries, to engineering and automobiles, science, innovation and the City, as well as for the UK's poorer regions currently enjoying EU funding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">True, it concedes, there will be a period of uncertainty which might force - and I quote - "desperate UK diplomats to accept unbalanced trade deals and would leave British fishing in chaos".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And yes, if you want to be <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fussy</em> about it, lack of future international clout is a bit of a major issue when it comes to trade deals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But there is no need to be gloomy or scared. Provided the UK Government commits itself to long term 'mirror funding' to regions, farmers and fishermen, as well as R & D subsidies and development grants for industry all <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">could</em> remain almost as good as we have it now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Projecting soft power will get trickier but it needs not be a disaster provided the Foreign and Commonwealth Office gets "a serious long term boost in training, investment and recruitment (especially into languages) to make up for the absence of the various EU diplomatic bodies."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm sure reversing the steady <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/23/foreign-office-cut-counter-terrorism-budget-half-15m" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">budget-slashing trend</a> which has beset the poor old FCO in the last few years, will also be a doddle. And if extra money can indeed be found, what better use for it than replicating structures which already exist today at EU level? I mean, it's not as if we face renewed geopolitical threats from all sides or a particularly high internal terrorist threat, or anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for what kind of terms of exit we'd be negotiating with the rest of the EU member states, "elements of Norwegian, Swiss Turkish and 'free trade' could be the goal of an exiting Government, including free movement of capital". They left out 'guarantees of permanent victory of the Eurovision song contest' and 'free roaming of the UK swine fleet in European skies' but I'm sure it's just an oversight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course the simplest thing any UK Government can do to mitigate the 'devastating' consequences of pulling out of the biggest market in the world is not to drag the UK out of the EU but rather stay in and work with its allies to make the EU more prosperous and more efficient. Brexit is not a rational alternative to leadership in Europe, nor an inevitable outcome but a baffling act of self-harm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So ironically this report, from an organisation which time and again has made its hatred of EU membership very clear, contains some of the best arguments for staying in that I have seen in some time.</span></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-84102701089054289322014-08-11T17:43:00.000+01:002019-11-13T16:20:51.049+00:00Keep the f@*#ing thing switched on! New ways to annoy my nephew in thefuture...<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the wake of a parental visit a few weeks ago very nearly marred by the reluctant and distressingly uneven use of an ancient and very EASY TO OPERATE mobile phone, I couldn't help but wonder: which totally banal yet 'indispensable as oxygen' technology will my inability to get my head around result in my nephew shouting (inside) in exasperation thirty years from now? I have already explored the <a href="http://paolabiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/keep-fking-thing-switched-on-or-what.html">replaceable organs scenario</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week we explore...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- Auntie Paola, where are you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me (<i>disembodied elbow
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse-Let me guess,
the setting was too low again..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me (<i>rest of body materialises, elbow disappears</i>)- This blasted thing is
just too difficult to operate. The instructions are written in minuscule print
and I…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- We’ve been through this, oh, 14.000 times? Green
for send, Red for close down transmission. What is so complicated?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – What can I tell you,
Mouse, I can never seem to get <i>both</i>
elbows in…Very peculiar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- Auntie, for the very last time...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me –The thing is, Mouse, I’m not at all clear about
the ‘thinghy’ here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse - …..I play poker with the VP of Apha Centauri.
I'm in a spaceship-share with the MD of Kookle….. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – But Mouse, the fact is…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse-… DON'T CALL ME MOUSE!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – OK, ok, you are so
grouchy! What was I saying?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- Your face is becoming all fuzzy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – You noticed? Ohhh, it’s this wonderful new beauty
treatment, it’s..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse – No, Auntie, you are <i>disappearing</i>…What button have you pushed now? You can't switch it on and off like that you have to keep the blasted thing On all the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – Button? No I just…wait a second, I have no
fingers at the mo…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- Hang on, it’s Uncle. Uh? Mmm…Says your butt is
now in the middle of interstellar motorway 17.....blocking the traffic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me- Don’t be ridiculous, I’ve completely lost the
extra holiday weight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- I thought I had been clear: littering the
galaxy with unwanted bits of your body is not the way to lose weight. Plus
there are laws against it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – Oh little Mouse, you are adorable when you get
angry! Reminds me of when I used to snatch your dummy and..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- It’s Uncle again. Said he sent his Ukulele <i>ahead</i> but he now can’t remember where. (<i>Sottovoce: God give me strength</i>). You cannot
teleport stuff on its own, you idiot!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me – Ohh, you are such a cross little Mouse! You
should start smoking again. They say it’s good for you now….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On a day that saw the Daily Express un-ironically ask its
readers to text whether ALL migration to the UK should be stopped, </span><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-821_en.htm"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">new statistics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">
about the uptake of the EU Erasmus programme, providing grants to young people
to study in other EU countries, seem designed to add fuel to the sacred flame
of Europhobia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Scrounging foreign
students clog up OUR unis at YOUR expense”</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Brits shun continent but lazy foreign students are coming over HERE” –
</i>these<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> are</i> just two of an infinite
variety of paint-by number headlines I can immediately predict.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">To a paper which seems to consider the Druids the last
legitimate inhabitants of these isles (before those unwashed Romans came over
here, stealing our women and carpeting our beautiful countryside with
unsightly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aqueducts) and would no doubt
swap the drawbridge for the Channel Tunnel any day, the Erasmus programme is
just one more COSTLY and IRRITATING EU concoction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the European Commission 14. 500 British
students took the chance to study elsewhere in Europe thanks to Erasmus in
2012/13, a 7 per cent rise from the previous year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Britain has the sixth highest number of
successful applicants across the 28 member, no mean feat is one considers how
poor the language skills of its young people are compared to some of their
continental neighbours.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The stats also reveal Britain to be the fourth most
attractive Erasmus destination for EU students. This is perhaps unsurprising,
given that 7 out of the top 10 EU universities are British and English has in
effect become the unofficial language of the EU, spoken by most youngsters
across the continent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">All the same, this is fantastic news, as the grants disbursed
centrally by the EU find their way back into the coffers of UK universities and
happy foreign students go on to provide free marketing for them around the EU.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The new, improved version of the Erasmus programme, recently
agreed for the next 7 years will extend grants to high school students,
volunteers and apprentices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The European
Commission estimates 162.000 young Brits will take advantage of it over that
period.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">By contributing to Erasmus though its share of the EU budget
Britain gets in return more money for its universities, grants for foreign
travel for its students, as well as the priceless diplomatic and cultural gains
to be had through such exchanges.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is, after all, through travel, cultural links and the
communication of engineering and scientific discoveries that we progressed from
the crude monoliths of Stonehenge to the engineering marvel that is the Channel
Tunnel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Only ‘travel’ and ‘cultural links’ often came in the guise of war or at
the </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">price of actual invasions, not via
Treaties and debates in the European Parliament.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">But these arguments would no doubt be lost on the elderly
readers of the Daily Express, busy as I imagine them to be today instructing
their Eastern European carers to text their newspaper that ALL immigration
should be stopped. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-46438684886612941732014-06-17T17:26:00.000+01:002014-11-16T17:29:15.578+00:00Italian tactics and (a flawed) British strategy<div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As the president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, heads to Rome for a spot of lunch with Matteo Renzi on Wednesday, I've been sounding out Italian journalists, academics and apparatchiks about what we can expect from Italy's PM and David Cameron's supposed New Best Friend, as the Great EU Junckernaut rumbles ominously on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I came away with a number of interesting reflections on the likely Italian tactics and a few depressing observations about Britain's flawed strategy on this matter, carried out with spectacularly clunky diplomacy, as perceived from the outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is what everyone is certain will not happen: Herman and Matteo will not stroll towards a bank of microphones and announce that either Jean-Claude or David can pop open the Champagne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Renzi may at times seem to walk on water (getting 40 pc of the vote in an election where established parties in the UK barely mustered 24, 23 and 7pc respectively does that to someone's image) but he is not a magician. He is a very shrewd politician with a couple of cards to play, a limited time window and a central positon on a well-lit stage to play them in. The magic dust of Renzi's friendship and the hard currency of his vote, should it come to that, are currently on sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Renzi needs a letting up of the EU's relentless focus on austerity, which has pulled Italy back from the financial brink but left it battling abysmal levels of unemployment. He needs the new European Commission to agree to a work programme where the words 'jobs and growth' are well in evidence, led by someone, no matter who, who's happy to say those words loud and often. Renzi is also in the market for a prestigious portfolio for Italy's commissioner, who could be either Enrico Letta or Massimo D'Alema.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Neither of these concessions are in Cameron's gift. So Renzi's priority will not be to form whatever blocking minority Cameron imagines can save the day but to correctly interpret and carry our Angela Merkel's preferred course of action, while taking care not to upset anyone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is a lot riding on the Italian Presidency, which begins on July the 1st, in terms of the country's external prestige and Renzi does not want to begin his six months at the helm of Europe overseeing a huge, bitter and protracted falling out. If such falling out is inevitable, he certainly doesn't want to be on the 'minority' side of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for the British strategy, as perceived from across the channel and on the other side of the Alps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The people I spoke to were bewildered by Cameron's "inexplicable" decision to play the man and not the ball. The European Parliament, which has the final vote in appointing the Commission, played a blinder on EU leaders by nominating its candidates ahead of an EU Election that for the first time gave it a consultative role on the selection of such candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the Parliament's winning candidate was only ever going to be the person chosen to lead Belgian-style talks with the political groups and establish if a majority in his/her favour could be found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Cameron begun issuing threats, using the prospect of Brexit to blackmail others, he paradoxically made Juncker's position more secure. Instead of being set on a mission that may very well have failed, delivering someone else at the helm of the Commission, the world's most famous Luxembourger is now involved in an existential fight for his own political survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A fight in which he can claim the highest principles of democracy to be on his side against Britain's bullying obstreperousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Prime Minister must be extremely careful now not to lose the European campaign for genuine reform in a desperate effort to win a domestic PR battle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forget the war on Juncker. Let him get the mandate to negotiate and let's see what happens in the European Parliament. If he is indeed selected don't fight that tide: you will lose or expend vital political capital for not very much in return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The real prize is a realistic, forward-looking mandate for the Commission Juncker might end up leading, around which there is quite a lot of encouraging consensus already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In fact stop giving the impression that everything is a battle, where we lure allies to 'our side' at the expense of others. The truth is most other big EU nations love and hate Europe in different ways and for different reasons but are deeply enmeshed in Europe nonetheless not 'just as a market' but as a monetary union, a cultural exercise, a historical necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They will not heed calls for reform that seem tailored to reducing Europe - its scope maybe, some of its powers yes, not its totemic symbolism. They will heed calls for reform that reflect common sense more than the narrow national self-interest of one nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This, by the way, does not mean that the gap between Britain's notion of Europe and everyone else's is unbridgeable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Britain remains better off in an Union which might not entirely, all the time, reflect exactly all its visions and aspirations provided it offers a platform to pursue most of its visions and aspirations most of the time, amplifying its power, its voice and its reach in the world into the bargain. That's what everyone else gets out of it too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It would be truly foolish to throw the baby out with the bathwater because we didn't like the particular make of the bathtub.</span></div>
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-71389884260472909262014-06-15T10:27:00.002+01:002014-06-15T10:37:34.330+01:00Keep the f@*#king thing switched ON! Or: what technical incompetence will I annoy my nephew with?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the wake of a parental visit last week-end very nearly marred by the reluctant and distressingly uneven use of an ancient and very EASY TO OPERATE mobile phone, I couldn't help but wonder: which totally banal yet 'indispensable as oxygen' technology will my inability to get my head around result in my nephew shouting (inside) in exasperation thirty years from now? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few scenarios...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Replaceable organs.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me - Where is it, I know I have it somewhere..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse -Antie Paola...?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me - Yes, in a second.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse- Auntie Paola, what are you looking for now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me- <i>Mutters to self -</i> I had it right here! <i>Then aloud</i>: Nothing! Just a minute...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse - It's your liver, isn't it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me- My ..my what? I'm insulted, insulted I say, that you could think a thing like that, besides..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse -You've been at the gin again, haven't you, and you've forgotten to change your liver..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me -I might, I meant to..very short measure...well it's none of your business anyhow but if you must know..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse - Show me the control panel Auntie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me - Get off me, you know nothing, nothing! I used to change your nappies young man..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse -You never changed a single one of my nappies, Auntie, mum still goes on about that..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me- I used to feed you and burp you, and I will never accept, never, this tone of voice when.. Ohhhh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse - Here we go (<i>control panel clicks open</i>). Weeeeelll, what do you know..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me- <i>Anxiously clutching a G&T </i>-What is it? What is it, Mouse? Is it serious??</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mouse - We have been through this Auntie. DO NOT CALL ME MOUSE. I manage a WHOLE MOON OFF EUROPA. I shuttle to Mars weekly. Drop the pet name for god's sake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ME - All right, all right!!! Young people are so touchy these days!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MOUSE- I am 43. But back to your ORGANigram: it would appear <i>someone</i> has installed two gallbladders..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ME - Ohhh, have <i>they</i>?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MOUSE -Yeeeees, <i>they</i> have forgotten the liver altogether and just plonked a <i>second</i> gallbladder in. Silly or what?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ME - Well, yes, that was silly, silly and dangerous! Someone should have a word with..someone and sort this out, it's an outrage (<i>loud clonk</i>) Ohh!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MOUSE -There you are: Livers, 1 Gallbladders, 1, Brains...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ME -Wait, wait, I had one here, I had it a minute ago, I swear. (<i>Ominous</i> <i>swish-shplatt</i> <i>noise</i>) Oh boy. These things sure are slippery, aren't they?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And keep the f*@#ing thing switched ON!</span><br />
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Paolabi'http://www.blogger.com/profile/00070654558045656851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426915854584322454.post-51241389469502930382014-06-15T01:19:00.003+01:002014-06-15T01:27:39.477+01:00Please help me combat the eight sign of ageing<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">My friends all know that the full length mirror simply loves my silhouette. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I've long ago defeated any notion of cellulite with all the appropriate gels and spa treatments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">As I was born bikini-ready and cleansing detoxes are already my idea of fun I feel vaguely left out from the ladies' mags' seasonal body-bashing and self-loading calls to action. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">In vain I scour my luminous visage for those pesky seven signs of ageing: perfection is a curse, I'm telling you!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">But perhaps there is an area in my life (not of my body, god forbid) where I do show my years- an eight sign of ageing if you like, one that even the most expensive tub of lotion, made of gold dust and babies' souls, simply cannot reach.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And perhaps dear friends, some of the musical (if <i>ugly</i>) ones among you can come to the rescue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I have stopped caring about, knowing about, buying and listening to new music. There, I said it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">My musical taste was never considered exquisite by those (fat, dumpy, envious) in the know but I least I could name-check REM, say, when they</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> came on the radio. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Then, sometimes between the End of History and the start of Coldplay an iron curtain of mutual indifference descended between me and popular music as an art form (or even as background to the washing up).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">What I would like to do is update my musical wardrobe with the equivalent of a styling service. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Since all music shops have disappeared in the meantime and I would not know where to start online (and I don't dare lose the correct Radio 4 slot on the dial so listening to new stuff on the radio is not an option) I thought if I told my friends what I already like and feel comfortable in they might help me pick the newest models, so to speak.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">So here we go, and please don't judge me (people with bat wings should not throw stones):</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I like Bobby McFerrin, Cat power, Dire Straits, They Might Be Giants, 1000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, The Police, Sting, KT Turnstall, Mattafix, Massive Attack, Nick Drake, Oasis, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Tanita Tikaram. I love <i>reasonable</i> jazz, you know, Miles Davies and stuff, plus stuff you can sing along to, Nina, Ella and all that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I think the most recent CDs I downloaded were by Amy Whitehouse, Adele, Elbow, Mumford and Sons, Band of Horses, Jamie Cullum.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">For Italian friends: I'm a singer-songwriter nut, on the DeGregori-Fossati-Conte wavelength with lashings of De Andre'. My most recent heroes are Lucio Quarantotto, Filippo Gatti, Samuele bersani, Cristina Dona'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">So there you have it, my disgracefully middle-of-the-road-in-my-slippers-carrying-antibacterial-spray list of faves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">If you want to help, these are the rules:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">1) I have no desire to have my horizons expanded.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">2) mind blown - same as above.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">3) If I haven't discovered a musical genre -or cared for it- in the past 45 years I think I can safely live without.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">4) I basically want to listen to the same shit but newer, more up to date versions of it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Can you help me? Can you suggest new shit for this ever young goddess to listen to?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please leave your comments here or on my Facebook page. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">5) No classical music, obviously. I said NEW shit.</span></span><br />
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