Yesterday I was on an RSA 'Zoom' call about ‘Supercommunities’ – I thought at first it was a bit slow but reflecting on it today I realise that it had real value, it was about the 'Nuts & Bolts' , the mechanics that are needed to make the bigger plans work. Seems these days the regular stuff is belittled in favour of flashes and bangs but if we don't keep an eye out for what makes things happen the whole circus can fall apart - perhaps there's an element of that with Brexit happening, taking for granted the mechanics means that when they start to struggle we are wrong footed.
I’m intrigued by how much of a pull Winston Churchill’s character with some sections of the English –remains, some say as well as a wartime leader I get the impression he was a difficult man heavily dependent on Alcohol who felt rejected by the British electorate at the Ballot box after WW2?
Was he a racist? Almost definitely even by the mores of his own time but seems it is sacrilege to say this and to consider that as a country we should look critically at the collective past.
My reflections following 2020’s Museums
Association ‘virtual’ conference – BLM was very much a live issue and the cultural
implications were being looked at by the sector of course – personally sympathies
were with those who I heard saying that context was all – we need to explain
the histories of those benefactors who benefited from Slave trade (and
indentured labour too) but not deny their existence.
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