@Colman The food angle's a good one. Was pondering that again recently with flag idiots banging on about "British" fish and chips. But also the hundreds of varieties of cheese in the UK and France - the sheer gastronomic variety, sometimes even from village to village or valley to valley. It's what makes everything more interesting - but it all evolved out of interaction with people and ideas from elsewhere.
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Same as I ever was, albeit a lot more jaded and far less likely to talk about Anglo-European relations given these are now largely nonexistent. I seem to mostly be using this as a place for occasional ranting about the Tories being awful, random observations about random stuff, and screaming into the void.
@Colman This is pretty much the heart of what I'm talking about, much more concisely expressed than I evidently managed.
Europe *thinks* it's a land of nations and long-established histories/traditions/identities. It's actually much more complicated - and interesting - than that.
@Colman For centuries, I'd argue. But yes, I'd agree the 80s was a bit of a turning point on the political side, and that Reagan/Thatcher were significant. Normalised a lot of the more extreme noises of the 70s. Took us Vs them back to nationalism after a few decades of it being more ideology.
I'm mostly trying to avoid explicitly talking politics with this new venture, but it's going to be hard, eh?
@Colman True. My tendency towards vagueness gets in the way of effective marketing once again...
Well this feels a bit old-school... I've done a blog post: https://medium.com/posteuropean/a-posteuropean-revival-is-anyone-still-out-there-aae2de7538fd
Well this feels a bit old-school... I've done a blog post: https://medium.com/posteuropean/a-posteuropean-revival-is-anyone-still-out-there-aae2de7538fd
The fragmentation of social media is getting more annoying by the day. Threads keeps notifying me about random posts from people I've never heard of. Bluesky never notifies at all. Mastodon seems dead. Facebook's full of algorithmic crap. Twitter's full of Nazis.
@Colman I mean, to be fair, facts are boring. "We need to stop the boats" is an easier, more understandable objective than "We need to address the complex root causes of a) why immigration is seen as a threat, b) how to turn it into a clear positive, and c) why so many people are risking a dangerous Channel crossing to get to the UK"...