[quote ListeningQuietly]An interesting read from last week BTW
www.economist.com/britain/2021/01/09/declinism-is-booming-in-britain[/quote]
Growing up in the 1970s, I knew the UK was crap. Maybe helped by having relatives who didn't live in the UK.
To be fair my memory of the 1980s - in London - were of a recovery if not renaissance well in to the 1990s.
DW and I are just getting into Idris Elbas "In The Long Run", and apropos of that, I found this lovely quote from the Elbaman himself ...
www.chortle.co.uk/interviews/2018/03/12/39371/we_weren%E2%80%99t_as_sensitive_about_other_people%E2%80%99s_feelings_back_then
What is it about the 80s that fascinates you?
I think the 1980s was like a bit of an English growth spurt, in terms of culture, in terms of legislation, parliament… lots of really big changes happened back then. And essentially some of our identity now comes from that time.
It was a very colourful era: we went from quite conservative clothing to quite outlandish clothing, and from being tight-lipped to quite outspoken. It was the birthplace of some of the greatest artists in the English pop music scene. And one of the things we tried to examine in the script is that people were a lot more carefree, rightly or wrongly, about what was said.
We weren’t as sensitive about other people’s feelings, and that created a society that stood up and fought against things it didn’t want, because people weren’t sensitive about saying, ‘That’s wrong,’ and, ‘That’s right.’ And it made neighbours love or hate each other, which is what we’re exploring