Monthly Archives: June 2017
Time for Uk to win back hearts and minds
The United Kingdom has hardly found the world at its feet this last year. The Brexit vote last summer, which was supported by over half of the population, but not by me and the rest of the population, left not only the UK’s European partners, but most of its democratic and accountable allies wondering just what kind of madness had gripped the English and Welsh (for the Scots voted against) who by a slim majority had voted to leave the European Union without really thinking how this could be done …
A Spanish hero in London: Ignacio Echeverria
A Spanish hero in London: Ignacio Echeverria As part of a former imperial power that has punched above its weight for most of its history, there are some British who do not easily look outside their own people for heroes. Ask your average Anglo-Saxon English primary school pupil about iconic heroes they have heard about and they are likely to mention two warrior Queens-Boadicea and Elizabeth I -, two warrior prime-ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, among an assortment of military icons from Wellington and Nelson to Montgomery, and James …
