FOREVER ENGLAND
posted by James Reel
English music critic Jessica Duchen, who is married to a London Philharmonic violinist, rightly decries the idiotic British prohibition of carrying one’s valuable musical instruments into the passenger cabin of an airplane. But she makes one curious statement:
If we are now going to turn into a xenophobic, paranoic, protectionist little island—as the USA appears to be doing its best to become—and our musician friends are forced to base themselves elsewhere, as may yet happen if this bloody mess is here to stay, then I just won't want to be here any more.What does she mean, “going to turn into”? If she’s stuck at home or in exile for a while, perhaps she should read up on British history, and think about why she’s buying history books with pounds rather than euros.
