The UK is cosmopolitan because it doesn’t overthink

  • GreyShuck
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    1 year ago

    Not convinced about the connection. As the author mentions this is totally different to the situation in America - which is not exactly renowned for the deep intellectualism of its politics.

  • @not_woody_shaw
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    31 year ago

    Is the author subtly suggesting we should be more racist?

  • @steeznson
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    21 year ago

    I loved this op-ed and I think the author has put his finger on something true about the UK. There is a (probably apocryphal) Napoleon quote where he dismisses us as being a “nation of shopkeepers” and I think the author is expressing similar sentiments here.

  • @byroon
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    21 year ago

    Britain’s prime minister? Asian. London’s mayor? Asian. Scotland’s first minister? Asian. His main opponent? Asian. As for the probable next chairman of the BBC, he isn’t Cornish.

    Extremely weird of the author to use Cornish here, I am sure that identity has always been underrepresented in British high society