The UK TV schedules are full of programs about the blitz. The stories are all about pilots and heros fighting over the channel.
However, I’ve never understood what this must have felt like on the ground until now…
Daily Archives: 23/09/2010
Greece…
Is this what the end of the post-war European period will look like?
“No success of any kind is regarded without suspicion. Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any sort of civic life impossible; the collapse of civic life only encourages more lying, cheating, and stealing.”
Filling out forms…
“…members of a rescue team were prevented from getting to the scene of an imagined reactor accident for 15 minutes because they had to fill in forms about radiation risks.”
Exercise at nuclear submarine yard exposes serious safety failings | World news | The Guardian.