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Paddington Bear Nationalism for the Spaniards: "the Blitz spirit". It was like this after the race riots in Britain last summer when a whole load of idiots went and tidied up the mosques. The Guardian produced a cartoon of hooded riot policeman standing in front of foreign temples reciting Churchill's 'Never Surrender' speech. The idea that nationwide race riots shouldn't be happening at all, and that we're resembling more and more a third world souk passed notice.

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An interesting piece. The whole thing brought to mind the ongoing issues with the collapse of the electrical infrastructure in South Africa. Load shedding has been ongoing since 2007, and yet the only major incidents of protests that I am aware of were in 2023. Failure has become normalised and people have adjusted to it. With this in mind, it is sadly not surprising to hear about the acceptance of dysfunction in Spain. It is why I am somewhat saddened to think that even if there was widespread power failure in the UK in the depths of winter, the public would likely accept it to some extent.

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