I Love This Country, But The Union

I Love This Country, But The Union Jack Leaves Me Cold.

Every Step That Produces A Single Job For A Currently Unemployed European Should Be Taken. Every Centimetre Of Red Tape That Puts Someone Out Of Work Must Be Torn Up.

Russia Has Lost An Empire But Not Yet Found A Role. Russia Has To Decide What It Wants To Be. And As We Know In Britain, That Takes Some Time. It Is Quite Tough To Lose An Empire And Russia Lost Its Empire Very Rapidly And Very Admirably, That Is To Say Peacefully, It Didn't Fight.

Facts Are Subversive. Subversive Of The Claims Made By Democratically Elected Leaders As Well As Dictators, By Biographers And Autobiographers, Spies And Heroes, Torturers And Post-modernists. Subversive Of Lies, Half-truths, Myths; Of All Those "easy Speeches That Comfort Cruel Men.

To Be In Florence Is To Reflect On Europe's Intricate Diversity - And Its Lost Creativity.