DOCSLIB.ORG

Internet-Projekte Aspekte

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Internet-Projekte Aspekte Activities Carnival around the world (A1) Read the text and then answer the questions below. Germany loves to celebrate Carnival. Think of the parades in Cologne and the thousands of visitors who enjoy this festival. People dress up in costumes, they drink a lot and have a good time! But Germany is not alone. Many other countries like to celebrate Carnival as well. The Carnival Capital of the world is Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The Rio Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) Carnival is a wild five-day celebration which begins on Friday and finishes on Tuesday. There are 70,000 participants in over 440 groups who dance and sing and play music in the parade and there is an audience of many millions who watch this gigantic party on television. The first record of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro was in 1723 when the celebration was, of course, much smaller. Panama is a very small country, but it celebrates Mardi Gras in a big way, too. Some people say it is the second biggest Carnival in the world. Like in Brazil, the festival starts on Friday and finishes on Tuesday. Many towns have their own celebrations, but Panama City has an exciting and lively parade along the Via España. There are plenty of water trucks spraying visitors and people throw water ballons – so watch out, you will get wet! Carnival in Venice started nearly one thousand years ago in 1162 and has become very popular today. Masks are very important in this Carnival and people wear masks of different colours and designs – and costumes, too, of course. Today more than three million people visit Venice for Carnival – so don’t expect to find an empty gondola during this time. Questions on the text 1 Which is the oldest Carnival? 2 Which is the biggest Carnival? 3 Where do people wear masks? 4 Where do people throw water? 5 How many people visit Carnival in Venice? Discussion questions 1 Have you visited any of these Carnivals? 2 Which of these Carnivals would you like to visit? 3 Do you enjoy the celebrations in Germany? Why? / Why not? Key to Questions on the text: 1 The Carnival in Venice. 2 The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. 3 In Venice. 4 In Panama City. 5 More than 3 million. Network Now Seite 1 Activities David Cameron (A2) Read the text and then answer the questions below. David Cameron is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is also the leader of the Conservative Party. He was born on 9 October 1966 to a wealthy family and he went to private school. When David was seven he went to Heatherdown Preparatory School in Berkshire - the same school that Prince Andrew and Prince Edward (Queen Elizabeth II's two younger sons) attended. At thirteen he went to Eton, one of the most famous (and certainly one of the most expensive) private schools in England. His father and older brother had also attended Eton. David was a very clever boy and a successful student, until the day the teachers discovered he was smoking cannabis! But he passed all his school exams with excellent grades and went on to study at Oxford University. He was a very good student at Oxford and received a first class degree. While he was at Oxford, he joined the Bullingdon Club, a group of male Oxford University students who had a reputation for excessive spending, drinking and wild behaviour. Other members of the Bullingdon Club in 1980s were George Osborne (now the Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Boris Johnson (the Mayor of London). David Cameron married Samantha Sheffield in 1996 while he was working at Carlton Communications. He first tried to become an MP (Member of Parliament) in 1997 in Stafford, but wasn’t successful. He won the second time in 2001 in Witney in Oxfordshire where he now lives (when he is not in 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister). Samantha and David Cameron’s first child, Ivan, was disabled and he died when he was six years old. They now have three children: Nancy, Arthur and Florence. Questions on the text 1 What do these numbers refer to? a) 7, b) 13, c) 1966, d) 1996, e) 2001 2 Why are these places important for David Cameron? a) Oxford b) Witney 3 What does he have in common with a) Prince Edward b) the Mayor of London? 4 What’s the equivalent of a) Prime Minister b) Chancellor of the Exchequer in your country? Who is your country’s Prime Minister and who is your country’s Chancellor of the Exchequer? Key: 1 a) David Cameron was 7 years old when he went to Heatherdown School. b) He was 13 years old when he went to Eton School. c) He was born in 1966. d) He got married in 1996. e) He became an MP in 2001. 2 a) He studied at Oxford University. b) He lives in Witney and he is MP for Witney. 3 a) He went to the same school as Prince Edward. b) He was in the Bullingdon Club with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. 4 a) ~ Premierminister/in / Regierungschef/in des Landes / Bundeskanzler/in b) ~ Finanzminister/in Network Now Seite 2 Activities A new kind of café (B1) Read the text and then answer the questions below. What do you think about a restaurant where the food is free? Where the drinks are free? Does it sound too good to be true? If you have ever spent an hour or two enjoying a coffee and cake with a friend, this new café might make you eat and drink more quickly. Why? Because Ziferblat is the UK’s first pay-per-minute café, but at only 3p per minute to stay, you might find yourself spending even longer chatting next time. The name Ziferblat means clock face in Russian and German (‘Zifferblatt’). Just like in an office, you clock in when you arrive and then you clock out when you leave. The minutes are added and the amount you have to pay is calculated. It is only £1.80 (about 2 euros) to stay for an hour! So how does the café make a profit? It’s hard to say at this point, but it seems that it is more a social experiment at the moment. It describes itself as a social project and not a business model. From time to time the organisation asks for donations to help fund further development. There is free fruit, coffee and tea and you can cook your own food if you want to. It looks like a regular arty restaurant, with comfortable chairs and tables. The chain has five cafés in Russia and Ziferblat in London is the first to be opened abroad. So if you are in London (or in Russia) and want somewhere different for a coffee, then try Ziferblat where ‘everything is free, except the time you spend there’. Questions on the text 1 Why is this café different from usual cafés? 2 How much is it to stay in the café per minute? How much would it cost for one and a quarter hours? 3 How many cafés like this are there in total in 2014? 4 Why is it called Ziferblat? Key: 1 You pay for the time you stay in the café and not for the food. 2 3p per minute. £2.25. 3 6 (5 in Russia and 1 in London). 4 Ziferblat means ‘clock face’ – you clock in when you arrive and you clock out when you leave. Network Now Seite 3 .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Wealthy Business Families in Glasgow and Liverpool, 1870-1930 a DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO
    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY In Trade: Wealthy Business Families in Glasgow and Liverpool, 1870-1930 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Field of History By Emma Goldsmith EVANSTON, ILLINOIS December 2017 2 Abstract This dissertation provides an account of the richest people in Glasgow and Liverpool at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on those in shipping, trade, and shipbuilding, who had global interests and amassed large fortunes. It examines the transition away from family business as managers took over, family successions altered, office spaces changed, and new business trips took hold. At the same time, the family itself underwent a shift away from endogamy as young people, particularly women, rebelled against the old way of arranging marriages. This dissertation addresses questions about gentrification, suburbanization, and the decline of civic leadership. It challenges the notion that businessmen aspired to become aristocrats. It follows family businessmen through the First World War, which upset their notions of efficiency, businesslike behaviour, and free trade, to the painful interwar years. This group, once proud leaders of Liverpool and Glasgow, assimilated into the national upper-middle class. This dissertation is rooted in the family papers left behind by these families, and follows their experiences of these turbulent and eventful years. 3 Acknowledgements This work would not have been possible without the advising of Deborah Cohen. Her inexhaustible willingness to comment on my writing and improve my ideas has shaped every part of this dissertation, and I owe her many thanks.
    [Show full text]
  • Income Inequality Is Not Just About Material Deprivation However
    Class Wars/Culture Wars 1st March 2012 Who makes chavs? Sue Christoforou www.equalitytrust.org.uk Causes of disadvantage V Professor Sir Michael Marmot, internationally acclaimed epidemiologist Income inequality is not just about material deprivation however. There is evidence that the degree of inequality in society, is having a harmful effect on health, not only of the poor, but of society as a whole. Countries, and areas within countries, marked by greater inequality have not only worse health but a higher rate of crime and other adverse social outcomes. Both poverty and inequality may be important for social cohesion, life opportunities and health. Fair Society, Healthy Lives: The Marmot Review, 2010 Index of: • Life expectancy • Math & Literacy • Infant mortality • Homicides • Imprisonment • Teenage births • Trust • Obesity • Mental illness – incl. drug & alcohol addiction • Social mobility Health and social problems are worse in more unequal countries Source: Wilkinson & Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level Source: Wilkinson & Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level Source: Wilkinson & Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level Source: Wilkinson & Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level Source: Wilkinson & Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level Systemic cause of poor health and = social outcomes You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishment, says Cameron The Telegraph 9 August 2011 I think we all do stupid things when we’re young, says Cameron BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme 2 September 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SaZUYa5r28 Bullingdon Club antics were nothing like the riots, says Cameron The Guardian 2 September 2011 Help us stop £1.5bn benefits scroungers ―The Sun is declaring war on feckless benefits claimants to slash the £5BILLION wasted in Britain's shambolic handouts culture.
    [Show full text]
  • Land and Sea Published by Aberdeen University Press
    JOURNAL OF IRISH AND SCOTTISH STUDIES Volume 10, Issue 1 Land and Sea Published by Aberdeen University Press in association with The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies ISSN 1753-2396 Contents The Missing Emigrants: The Wreck of the Exmouth and John Francis Campbell of Islay Sara Stevenson 1 Spin Doctors or Informed Lobbyists? The Voices of Four Presbyterian Ministers in the Emigration of Scots to the Antipodes, 1840–80 Jill Harland 21 Celt, Gael or English? British Ethnic Empathy to Indigenes in the Empire from the Records of British Battalions in the Sub-Continent Peter Karsten 50 ‘The Evils Which Have Arisen in My Country’: Mary Power Lalor and Active Female Landlordism during the Land Agitation Andrew G. Newby 71 The Scottish Landed Estate: Break-up or Survival? Ewen A. Campbell 95 Purpose and the Irish Landed Gentry: The Case of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, 1843–1925 Ian d’Alton 117 List of Contributors 142 Editorial In recent literature both the Irish and the Scots have been described as ‘migrant peoples’, and both nations have a constantly refreshed relationship with an identifi ed global diaspora. These diaspora in turn exercise real political and cultural power across the Anglophone world. Yet this characteristic of these two Celtic peoples was a direct consequence of the politics of place in the homeland. Both Ireland and Scotland had, and continue to have, a contested relationship to the divisions and subdivisions, the management and improvement of the agricultural land which they inhabit. The Great Famine and the Clearances attest to that. This issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies brings together a set of occasional papers which refl ect on the complex weave of migration and the politics of land since the nineteenth century.
    [Show full text]
  • Polish Alumni of Foreign Universities – a Case of Re-Aculturation
    Polish alumni of foreign universities – a case of re-aculturation The analysis of Polish graduates of foreign universities upon their return to Poland, Polish Alumni Networks and their impact on public service and social capital Research Project conducted as part of the Visegrad Fund Research Grant, in partnership with European Academy of Diplomacy Mateusz Mazzini St Antony’s College Oxford University Introduction According to the recent available data published by OECD, the estimated number of Polish students undertaking various programs of Higher Education abroad stands on roughly 40 000 students. This number is measured annually; therefore it does include as well students enrolled on exchange programs, such as Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus or bilateral exchanges between universities. Focusing on those with permanent enrollment (full-time degree entirely undertaken within a foreign educational unit), the primary destinations include Great Britain (ca. 10 000) and Germany (ca. 8 000), followed by the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Italy. A sharp increase in these numbers has occurred since 2004, when due to the EU accession Poles have become classified as Home Students, thus being subjected to the same fees as local students in respective countries. However, this increase in numbers has neither been followed nor come about as a result of governmental programs or comprehensive policies of support. Therefore, preliminarily, it is possible to advance a thesis that the increased quality of public service and education among young Poles, with emphasis on better prospects of receiving support of any kind for foreign education, are indeed to be observed, however the public administration is here a beneficiary of the third sector organisations and their activities rather than of its own comprehensive and institutional strategies.
    [Show full text]
  • The Brazen Nose 2014-2015
    The Brazen Nose 2014-2015 BRA-19900 The Brazen Nose 2015.indd 1 19/01/2016 14:16 The Brazen Nose The Brazen The Brazen Nose Volume 49 2014-2015 Volume 49, Volume 2014-2015 BRA-19900 Cover.indd 1 20/01/2016 11:30 Printed by: The Holywell Press Limited, www.holywellpress.com BRA-19900 The Brazen Nose 2015.indd 2 19/01/2016 14:16 CONTENTS Records The Amazing Women Portraits A Message from the Editor ............. 5 Project by Margherita De Fraja ....... 97 Senior Members ............................. 9 Alumni Nominations for the Class Lists ..................................... 18 Amazing Brasenose Women Project Graduate Degrees ........................ 21 by Drusilla Gabbott ...................... 100 Matriculations ............................... 26 Memories of Brasenose College Prizes .............................. 30 by Abigail Green .......................... 103 Elections to Scholarships and John Freeman: Face to Face with an Exhibitions 2014 ......................... 33 Enigma by Hugh Purcell ............... 107 College Blues ............................... 38 My Brasenose College Reunion Reports by Toby Young ............................. 123 JCR Report ................................. 40 Patrick Modiano and Kamel Daoud HCR Report ............................... 44 As Principled Investigators Library And Archives Report ........ 46 by Carole Bourne-Taylor ............... 124 Presentations to the Library........... 52 Review of Christopher Penn’s Chapel Report.............................. 54 The Nicholas Brothers & ATW Penn Music
    [Show full text]
  • Out of Scope
    British Broadcasting Corporation Room BC2 B6 Broadcast Centre White City Wood Lane London W12 7TP Telephone 020 8008 2882 Email [email protected] Information Policy & Compliance bbc.co.uk/foi bbc.co.uk/privacy Mark Salter Via email: [email protected] 17th March 2015 Dear Mr. Salter Freedom of Information request – RFI20150307 Thank you for your request to the BBC of 24th February 2015 seeking the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: “Please provide the information you hold on the commisioning of a painting of a photograph of the Bullingdon Club photograph containing the then members David Cameron and Boris Johnson. I would be interested in having - the name of the company or artist commisioned - the dimensions of the painting and materials used - I presume on the commision to the artist. - the cost of the commision - the date the commision was made - the date the painting was accepted by the BBC - any justification made or given for this commision - the documented intended use of the painting - where it will be primarily be displayed, and how/where a member of the public might view it” The painting is retained by the artist , Rona Marsden and will go on exhibition in Oxford in April (Hemingway Art, Penwood House, Pound Lane, Cassington, Oxford OX29 4BN). The reasons for the commission were set out at the time by Michael Crick in a blog in 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/newsnight/2007/03/bullingdon_and_blair.html. Please note that the other information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ Part VI of Schedule 1 to FOIA provides that information held by the BBC and the other public service broadcasters is only covered by the Act if it is held for ‘purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature” 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Constitution.Pdf
    1 ` THE CONSTITUTION OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION THE STANDARD FORM CONSTITUTION CONTENTS PART ONE: Name and Objects RULE 1 PART TWO: Compliance RULE 2 PART THREE: Membership RULE 3 RULE 4 RULE 5 RULE 6 PART FOUR: Meeting of the Members RULE 7 RULE 8 RULE 9 RULE 10 RULE 11 PART FIVE: The Committee RULE 12 RULE 13 RULE 14 RULE 15 RULE 16 RULE 17 RULE 18 RULE 19 RULE 20 RULE 21 RULE 22 RULE 23 RULE 24 PART SIX: Indemnity RULE 25 RULE 26 PART SEVEN: Dissolution RULE 27 RULE 28 Returning Officer: Nicholas Stone, Christ Church 2 PART EIGHT: Interpretation RULE 29 SCHEDULE CODE OF CONDUCT ON SAFETY MATTERS ANNEXE THE RULES AND STANDING ORDERS OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS PART ONE ........................................................................................................................................... 10 GENERAL ............................................................................................................................................ 10 RULE 1(1): NAME ................................................................................................................................ 10 RULE 1(2): THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION ............................................................... 10 RULE 1(3): OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................... 10 RULE 1(4): MEMBERSHIP .................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Maha Sura Singhanat
    Maha Sura Singhanat Somdet Phra Bawornrajchao Maha Sura Singhanat (Thai: สมเด็จพระบวรราช Maha Sura Singhanat เจามหาสุรสิงหนาท; RTGS: Somdet Phra Boworaratchao Mahasurasinghanat) (1744–1803) was the younger brother of Phutthayotfa Chulalok, the first monarch of มหาสุรสิงหนาท the Chakri dynasty of Siam. As an Ayutthayan general, he fought alongside his brother in various campaigns against Burmese invaders and the local warlords. When his brother crowned himself as the king of Siam at Bangkok in 1781, he was appointed the Front Palace or Maha Uparaj, the title of the heir. During the reign of his brother, he was known for his important role in the campaigns against Bodawpaya of Burma. Contents 1 Early life 2 Campaigns against the Burmese Monument of Maha Surasinghanat 3 The Front Palace at Wat Mahathat 4 Death Viceroy of Siam 5 References Tenure 1782 – 3 November 1803 Early life Appointed Phutthayotfa Chulalok (Rama I) Bunma was born in 1744 to Thongdee and Daoreung. His father Thongdee was the Predecessor Creation for the new Royal Secretary of Northern Siam and Keeper of Royal Seal. As a son of aristocrat, he entered the palace and began his aristocratic life as a royal page. Thongdee was a dynasty, previously descendant of Kosa Pan, the leader of Siamese mission to France in the seventeenth Krom Khun Pornpinit century. Bunma had four other siblings and two other half-siblings. Bunma himself Successor Isarasundhorn (later was the youngest born to Daoreung. Rama II) Born 1 November 1744 Campaigns against the Burmese Ayutthaya, Kingdom In 1767, Ayutthaya was about to fall. Bunma fled the city with a small carrack to of Ayutthaya join the rest of his family at Amphawa, Samut Songkram.
    [Show full text]
  • Absolute Research, 7, 11 Academic Staff Juniors Staff, 51–53 Professors
    INDEX Absolute Research, 7, 11 File on 4, 100, 223–224 Academic staff investigation, 32 juniors staff, 51–53 Beer, Janet, 16, 67 professors, 52 Bennett, Alan, 38–39 teaching staff, 31, 57, 152–153 Bill’s New Frock, 188 Advisory Conciliation and Birmingham University, 102, 183 Arbitration Service (ACAS), Bisexuality, 8 14, 108–109 Bishop’s Mill Pub, Durham, 33 Advocates, 44, 189, 208, 235–236 Boar, The, 35–36 Ahmed, Sara-Director of Feminist Bola, JJ, 166, 173–174 Research at Goldsmiths Boston Marathon, 168 University, 96 Bristol University, 97 Alcohol British Board of Film Classification, and consent, 39–40 166 drunkenness, 34 British Heart Foundation, 234 effect of, 40 Brook, 7 Alienation, 161 Brunel University, 61, 115–116 Ambassador programme, 178 Buckingham, Julia, 16–17, 61, 190 American Health Care, 179 Buckley-Irvine, Nona, 149 Angiolini, Elish, 44, 52–53 Bullingdon Club, The, 39 Anglia Ruskin University, 125–126 Burnell, Jocelyn Bell, 138 Appeal, right of, 122, 126, 205 Bystander Argentina, 155 intervention, 184–185 Aristotle, 168 training, 182, 184–185, 230–231 Arts Council of Great Britain, The, 138 Cambridge Analytica, 155 Attenborough, David, 177 Cambridge University, 97, 100, Australian Human Rights 102–103, 105, 111, 178, Commission, 18 204 Campaigns Baird QC, Vera-Victims’ coalition, 239 Commissioner, 31, 61, hub of, 237 112, 126, 146–147, local, 234–235, 240 223 national, 6, 235 Banter, 40, 74, 147 Canadian Parliament, 155 Barber, Michael-chair of OfS, 8 Cancer Research, 234 Bartoli, Marion, 168 Cardiff University, 183
    [Show full text]
  • Humans of Warwick Re-Launch
    Wednesday 27th January, 2016 Est. 1973 | Volume 38 | Issue 7 theboar27% battery remaining, 24 minutes left Can’t find a seat in the library? Revealed: seven in eight students won’t have a study space on campus FEATURED: Humans of Warwick re-launch News COBALT Music Games Mushrooms growing in First ever printed pages of the Tribute to David Bowie Best (and worst) of 2015 Tocil...again magazine Page 40 Page 35 Page 5 Pages 26-29 >> Photo: Joe Lester / The Boar Apply now for our Leadership leaders for Development Programme life teachfirst.org.uk/graduates Registered charity: 1098294 TF4332Sponsored Warwick Newspaper by: Banner.indd 2 10/08/2015 18:28 News Editors’ Picks Humans of Warwick & Cobalt Working Class White Boys David Bowie Tribute Science Explained Pullout (p. 24-29) Comment (p.11) Music (p. 40) Science & Tech (p. 42) One of the things that we have tried to perfect George Morgan’s article about the stagger- this year is telling stories. Not only this, but ingly low numbers of working class white This week’s Music section features a marvel- Speaking as someone who barely remem- to tell the stories that matter. I am delight- males from entering further education is one lous tribute to the late, great musical genius bers what a Bunsen burner is, it’s a relief ed to introduce a partnership with Cobalt, not to be missed. It’s hard not to stereotype (and my mum’s favourite) David Bowie. In that Science & Tech have revived their long- the student-run online lifestyle magazine at about this demographic; they make up most Film meanwhile, there’s one to celebrated dormant Science Explained column.
    [Show full text]
  • PSA Awards 2010
    AWARD WINNERS TUESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2010 One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA THE AWARDS Politician of Year 2010..................................................................3 Lifetime Achievement in Politics ..............................................5 Parliamentarian .............................................................................7 Setting the Political Agenda .......................................................9 Political Journalist.......................................................................11 Broadcast Journalist ..................................................................12 Special ‘Engaging the Public’ Award .......................................13 Best Political Satire.....................................................................14 Lifetime Achievement in Political Studies............................16 Politics/Political Studies Communicator .............................19 Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies ..........................................................................20 Best book in British political studies 1950-2010 ...............21 W. J. M. MacKenzie Prize 2010 .................................................22 ANNUAL AWARD POLITICIAN OF YEAR 2010 This is an award for domestic politicians who have made a significant impact in 2010. Any person elected for political office in the UK can be considered. The Judges Say described him as “one of the ablest” Despite the inconclusive outcome of the students he has taught. 2010 general
    [Show full text]
  • Enter Boris Johnson'smind
    Enter Boris Johnson’s Mind Directed by Alice Cohen Produced by ARTE France & MORGANE Production PROVISIONAL DELIVERY : MARCH 2021 Summary No one took him seriously, he was seen as a buffoon. “I am more likely to be beheaded Yet he was on the winning side with Brexit in 2016 and then triumphed in the December 2019 legislative by a Frisbee or reincarnated into elections. Boris Johnson is the UK’s new strongman. And he is radically altering his country, leaving an an olive than I am to become indelible mark on it – for better or for worse. The Prime Minister. ” British people and Europe’s future for the next ten years hang on to this eccentric, sad clown’s decisions. Boris Johnson, in French (2013, on the set of FranceTV) Enter Boris Johnson’s mind • 2 Intent A subtle blend of Kennedy, Kardashian and Monty Python, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defies expectations. With a comfortable majority for five years and the opposition in shambles, the years 2020 and 2021 look to be pivotal for him and his country. For better or for worse. Since 1945, the United Kingdom has undergone two major historical shifts: the invention of the welfare state at the end of the war and the wave of liberalization led by Margaret Thatcher from 1979 onwards. With the exit from the European Union and the coronavirus forcing a strong comeback of state regulation, will 2020 mark a third major turn? Behind his jester’s mask, will Boris Johnson rise to the occasion or lead his country to ruin? Is he, at heart, the United Kingdom’s gravedigger; or the redeemer of British greatness? While the film will mainly cover the most recent developments, we will segue into the political, journalistic and sometimes personal history of - political archives, mainly contextual, historical, the man to better inform his political choices and personal.
    [Show full text]