All depends on what you mean by “Cosmopolitanism”. If this is a periphrasis for “Globalist”, I very strongly disagree.
Myself, one of the joys in travelling to Central (or ‘Eastern’ Europe if you insist, is the obvious fact that in Poland, the society and culture is identifiably Polish. Ditto Hungary / Hungarian. Ditto pretty much everywhere from Estonia to Serbia.
Absolutely the opposite of what is left of London, for example.
And, incidentally, did you not consider that in terms of time of travel, even the Southern ports of France, or Reval (Tallinn) for that matter, used to be much ‘closer’ to British ports than was Prague?
Martin Brumby
1 year ago
All depends on what you mean by “Cosmopolitanism”. If this is a periphrasis for “Globalist”, I very strongly disagree.
Myself, one of the joys in travelling to Central (or ‘Eastern’ Europe if you insist, is the obvious fact that in Poland, the society and culture is identifiably Polish. Ditto Hungary / Hungarian. Ditto pretty much everywhere from Estonia to Serbia.
Absolutely the opposite of what is left of London, for example.
And, incidentally, did you not consider that in terms of time of travel, even the Southern ports of France, or Reval (Tallinn) for that matter, used to be much ‘closer’ to British ports than was Prague?
Ian Stewart
1 year ago
“the distance from Dover to the German-Czech border is substantially less than the distance from Dover to the south of France.”
And, contradicting this article, I feel a far far closer connection to the politics, people and culture of Eastern Europe than I do to our neighbours in France, who are a perpetual mystery to me.
Ian Stewart
1 year ago
“the distance from Dover to the German-Czech border is substantially less than the distance from Dover to the south of France.”
And, contradicting this article, I feel a far far closer connection to the politics, people and culture of Eastern Europe than I do to our neighbours in France, who are a perpetual mystery to me.
Warren Trees
1 year ago
Thank you for the background for that carole. Every year, as we watch “Love Actually”, I always wonder about who King Wenceslas was during the scene where the PM and his chauffeur sing it to the gleeful little girls in the doorway of a flat in the “dodgy” part of London.
Last edited 1 year ago by Warren Trees
Warren Trees
1 year ago
Thank you for the background for that carole. Every year, as we watch “Love Actually”, I always wonder about who King Wenceslas was during the scene where the PM and his chauffeur sing it to the gleeful little girls in the doorway of a flat in the “dodgy” part of London.
All depends on what you mean by “Cosmopolitanism”. If this is a periphrasis for “Globalist”, I very strongly disagree.
Myself, one of the joys in travelling to Central (or ‘Eastern’ Europe if you insist, is the obvious fact that in Poland, the society and culture is identifiably Polish. Ditto Hungary / Hungarian. Ditto pretty much everywhere from Estonia to Serbia.
Absolutely the opposite of what is left of London, for example.
And, incidentally, did you not consider that in terms of time of travel, even the Southern ports of France, or Reval (Tallinn) for that matter, used to be much ‘closer’ to British ports than was Prague?
All depends on what you mean by “Cosmopolitanism”. If this is a periphrasis for “Globalist”, I very strongly disagree.
Myself, one of the joys in travelling to Central (or ‘Eastern’ Europe if you insist, is the obvious fact that in Poland, the society and culture is identifiably Polish. Ditto Hungary / Hungarian. Ditto pretty much everywhere from Estonia to Serbia.
Absolutely the opposite of what is left of London, for example.
And, incidentally, did you not consider that in terms of time of travel, even the Southern ports of France, or Reval (Tallinn) for that matter, used to be much ‘closer’ to British ports than was Prague?
“the distance from Dover to the German-Czech border is substantially less than the distance from Dover to the south of France.”
And, contradicting this article, I feel a far far closer connection to the politics, people and culture of Eastern Europe than I do to our neighbours in France, who are a perpetual mystery to me.
“the distance from Dover to the German-Czech border is substantially less than the distance from Dover to the south of France.”
And, contradicting this article, I feel a far far closer connection to the politics, people and culture of Eastern Europe than I do to our neighbours in France, who are a perpetual mystery to me.
Thank you for the background for that carole. Every year, as we watch “Love Actually”, I always wonder about who King Wenceslas was during the scene where the PM and his chauffeur sing it to the gleeful little girls in the doorway of a flat in the “dodgy” part of London.
Thank you for the background for that carole. Every year, as we watch “Love Actually”, I always wonder about who King Wenceslas was during the scene where the PM and his chauffeur sing it to the gleeful little girls in the doorway of a flat in the “dodgy” part of London.