Malu Cacen

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Like most people - at least those with smartphones of one sort or another - I have an app for just about everything, from Altimeter to Zenbeats, via a frankly bewildering array of noise-making devices, and photography apps by the dozen; newsfeeds, journals, e-readers and so on: you get the picture.

Amongst these are the usual suspects, such as the BBC and sports apps, and Twitter - the only social medi(a)(um) I engage in; and then only to give vent to my sarcastic tendencies and constant political ire - and a rather fine daily distraction in the Oxford English Dictionary app, which throws up a word of the day each morning.

The two met with some serendipity today, in the form of a tweet from @BillMaureen which featured a video of dozens and dozens of trucks lining the hard shoulder of the approach to the Channel Tunnel; and today's word from the Oxford app.

Responses to the video seemed mostly to take the form of the low-grade nationalist xenophobia we have come to expect in our embittered and divided post-brexit country: it's all the fault of Johnny Foreigner across the Channel, not letting us participate in the Common Market or benefit from the freedom of travel that the Tunnel was originally designed to facilitate. And then there are the queues for the ferries: likewise, I guess. I ask you.

The word of the day? Hubris...


Comments

  1. Anonymous24 July 2022 at 09:09

    But it WAS Johnny Foreigner not turning in to work mate!
    That doesn't take away that the EU is petty and vindictive; reacting JUST like a spoilt child, over NI.
    The French, Germans and others pick and choose which Brussels edicts to act on and which to not act upon.
    Whatever the source of this shit: shit it is.
    Maybe Trade for Trade's sake is NOT summat that we should pursue?
    ATB
    Joe

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