Recent content by ks.234

is the reason why we‘re so desperate to find something in our past to be proud of because we have so f*cked our future?

“That will be a massive task given that the targets are currently off track and the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is reluctant to make any new spending commitments” A potential commitment of £28bn to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and kickstart a green economy was watered down earlier this...

Of course. I’m just not sure why pride has to come in with it though. The opposite of being proud of your country is not necessarily hating it. Other alternatives are available Given our history I would hope that we have seen moves to greater inclusivity. However, exclusivity has been on...

Pride in the people around you is fine. Especially if they have built something from the ashes of racial tensions 13 years ago Of course they do. It’s as daft to deny history from centuries ago as it is to deny that of 13 years ago. If a community has built something of the ashes of past...

Then went begging for a different one from The Dutch a few years later. Then to Germany…..

Obviously If history is both about the moral positives and negatives, both need to be included. To exclude one is not history, it’s something very different. History is inclusive, not exclusive The Germans do express their guilt about their recent history, it is having an impact on their...

Of course the History of anything has to be seen in context, but taking pride in past events requires stripping out those things that are nothing to be proud of. Trying to reveal the whole picture is the purpose of historical study Studying anything and not including the negatives is not good...

You believe we should take pride in the Industrial Revolution, slavery, colonialism and exploitation and all

Not sure what you disagree about? That History should be studied or that History should not be studied to find pride? The Industrial Revolution would not have happened, or at least wouldn’t have happened the way it did, without the investment of money gained from the fabulous profits of slavery...

If you don’t recognise the moral wrongs of past genocides, you won’t recognise them when and where that are happening in the present.

“In an email sent to other utility CEOs which she describes as “sensitive” and “highly confidential”, the £4 million a year Garfield asks them to join an “off-the-record roundtable” with Will Hutton the Observer journalist best known for books critical of capitalism including The State We’re In...

There seems to be a trend in certain podcasts where two people from different political allegiances are thrown together as of presenting opposing views, whereas the truth is that they agree on the fundamentals Ed Balls and George Osbourne should demonstrate opposing views on austerity...

I feel English because I am. Not sure what there is to be proud of though. Our industrial past is part of our history, it is something to be studied, but studying it from a starting point of pride is ahistorical. Our sense of “fair play” is non-existent. If it did exist we wouldn't have racism...