Britain Really Doesn t Rule the Waves
May 07 2021, 11:11 AM
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May 07 2021, 11:11 AM
(Bloomberg Opinion) Despite the jokes on social media, Britain and France arenât going to war. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered HMS Severn and HMS Tamar â two Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels â into the waters around the island of Jersey, it wasnât with the intention of doing combat with the French over fishing licenses.
(Bloomberg Opinion) Despite the jokes on social media, Britain and France arenât going to war. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered HMS Severn and HMS Tamar â two Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels â into the waters around the island of Jersey, it wasnât with the intention of doing combat with the French over fishing licenses.
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Cold War, Hard and Soft
A cold war has hard and soft components, like an egg or the SAT. Last night the Oscars were a stark reminder the U.S. is winning the soft-power part of the war. The hard part could be a much different story.
“Nomadland,” a very good, very depressing movie about premature retirees living in vans, won best picture. Its director, Chloé Zhao, a Chinese national, won best director. (Frances McDormand, a national treasure, won best actress for her part in the movie. Also, if you didn’t find the movie quite depressing enough, please read Jessica Bruder’s very good book.)
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Mar 17, 2021
For two and a half years most people in Britain ignored the brewing fight between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond. No longer. The civil war among Scottish nationalist factions has been justly described as Shakespearean. Scotland’s first minister is vying to save her career while her predecessor and long-time mentor seeks to salvage what’s left of his reputation and legacy.
With important elections coming in May, the battle of Salmond versus Sturgeon threatens to undermine the Scottish independence movement to which both politicians have dedicated their careers, and just as support for that cause had genuine momentum. That’s music to Boris Johnson’s ears, even if the U.K. prime minister doesn’t have a dog in this fight.