This is your best piece to date! As always realistic, well researched, broad minded, even handed but best of all provokes personal reflection. I am eagerly looking forward to the next ten to twenty podcasts which this piece will provoke.
One question: why oh why do you finish your best podcasts with “Unfortunately we have run out of time to discuss ….. this further”. I rarely tire of most topics you two cover. Also maybe could you include Jim’s statistics on the podcast email as I have to replay,stop and start the pod to write them down.
A great piece, but we have to try and explain why, despite all this evidence, so many people “want their country back’?
I am currently in Ireland, and I am an immigrant from Zimbabwe (I came to the UK in 1986) and I believe that some core essence of The UK has been lost. It is ineffable and impossible to describe, but things feel more bleak than before and now, I find the same expressions of national discord in Ireland. Identical. So it’s not Brexit…
Why do so many people feel out of sync with the ‘great story’ you’ve presented here?
This is your best piece to date! As always realistic, well researched, broad minded, even handed but best of all provokes personal reflection. I am eagerly looking forward to the next ten to twenty podcasts which this piece will provoke.
One question: why oh why do you finish your best podcasts with “Unfortunately we have run out of time to discuss ….. this further”. I rarely tire of most topics you two cover. Also maybe could you include Jim’s statistics on the podcast email as I have to replay,stop and start the pod to write them down.
Martin Murphy
This is possibly the most cogent exploration of this phenomenon I’ve read so far. Congratulations.
A great piece, but we have to try and explain why, despite all this evidence, so many people “want their country back’?
I am currently in Ireland, and I am an immigrant from Zimbabwe (I came to the UK in 1986) and I believe that some core essence of The UK has been lost. It is ineffable and impossible to describe, but things feel more bleak than before and now, I find the same expressions of national discord in Ireland. Identical. So it’s not Brexit…
Why do so many people feel out of sync with the ‘great story’ you’ve presented here?
You’ve surpassed yourself, Chris.