From Elsewhere – An example of a really good piece of writing

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Sometimes I come across a piece of writing that is so good that it metaphorically grabs me by the neck and shakes me around a bit. This piece from Tim Newman of the White Sun of the Desert blog is one of those.

It’s a brilliant example of taking a BBC story and de-constructing it. The BBC story was one of those ‘oh isn’t Brexit terrible’ ones that they run a lot of. In this story the BBC was trying to spin the story to make it appear that there were loads of foreign born people clamouring to leave the UK because of the Brexit vote. Unfortunately for the BBC Tim Newman has read the BBC article and watched the broadcasts carefuly and has used this information to very effectively stomp all over the BBC’s Leftist anti Brexit narrative. It’s quite a long piece and I shall only excerpt the first few passages but I would strongly advise that people click the link at the bottom of the excerpt and read the whole piece.

‘The ones who flee’ by Tim Newman

Once again the BBC trawls around for folk quitting a country over the political preferences of its population. Last time it was Americans running from the Trumpocaust, only their examples left much to be desired. This time it’s Europeans fleeing Brexit:

Katarina Karmazinova came to London aged 24 to study European business. Attracted, she says, by the UK’s multiculturalism and openness, the Slovakian native chose the Royal Holloway University for her master’s degree. After graduating, she decided to stay and work – she even bought a flat. But when the UK voted to leave the European Union in June last year, Karmazinova sold her flat, quit her job, and left the country. She has been travelling and writing since.

Hmmm.

It made me sad that the UK, that advanced life I’ve always praised in Slovakia as an example politically and culturally, had now a crack,” says Karmazinova, who was in the UK for eight years. “Suddenly, half of the country showed a different face to me.”

Just like that, eh? Britain voted to leave and you quit your job and sold your flat in order to travel around and write. I don’t think we’re being told the whole story here. I assume she’s single, or at least childless: decisions like this tend not to be very compatible with a family life or a steady relationship. If I were to be cruel, and I will, I’d say she done quite well professionally earning enough to buy a property in London, but she’s reached middle age and found her life an otherwise complete, empty mess. Selling up to go travelling and writing is not a rational response to Brexit, and has midlife crisis written all over it.

Read the rest of this piece via the link below:

http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=4480
Having read the article I’m tempted to agree with the tone of Mr Newman’s article in that there is and was a dearth of evidence to support the BBC’s questionable narrative that Brexit will bring disaster and the expulsion of foreigners.

2 Comments on "From Elsewhere – An example of a really good piece of writing"

    • Fahrenheit211 | April 4, 2017 at 8:24 am |

      No problem. It struck me as a really good bit of deconstruction of the BBC narrative. Thank you for publishing it.

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