Diary, Politics, Travel, Europe
PM: My own sense is that the likelihood of the UK breaking apart has increased substantially with Boris Johnson becoming the prime minister of the UK. Here is a good summary of we know about King Boris. The new PM’s rise to No 10 is the carefully managed product of three decades of a show stage-managed by and about himself.Will King Boris lead the the UK to fall apart
Boris Johnson can’t be found out: we all know he’s bluffing
by Fintan O’Toole in The Guardian
Movies, Drama, Travel, Europe
If you want to see a film that is a genuine piece of art, you could not go wrong with The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza). Many European attempts to make an “artistic” rather than “commercial” film fail miserably. Breaking the tradition, experimentation for the sake of experimenting often becomes the center of these efforts rather than giving the viewer something new that does not feel artificial and contrived and is enjoyable to watch.The Great Beauty
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