Pity and scorn

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Just back from a trip to France that stirred memories of the attitudes of many of my parents’ generation to “the Continent” and indeed, foreign countries in general. Way back then, my parents looked with a mixture of pity and scorn on foreign countries with their shoddy goods, potholed roads, dismal health services, cumbersome bureaucracy, corrupt police and shifty, incompetent and often crooked politicians. How times change…

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