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Inside cover: Coastal Defences, Isle of Grain

It’s a pleasure

to present the second edition of Mind’s Eye Kent, an online magazine produced by The King’s School, Canterbury, to celebrate writing in other East Kent schools.

All of the contributors in this edition share passionate concerns about trouble in the wider world. Three of the writers, who live in Herne Bay, admit the town has seen better days but prefer the shabby charm of their home town to the cruel camps that house the homeless over the Channel. Then Gemma Humphries warns us that it will not be just an environmental catastophe if sharks go the way of the dodo, but also a sin. And Alice Oliver feels just as strongly that positive individual voices these days are drowned out

by Groupthink, while Dylan Uddin reminds us that George Orwell knew chapter and verse on the value of telling the truth. The magazine closes on a familiar lament when Gemma Humphries decries the recent withdrawal of the Western world from the fruitful diversity that is so essential to economic development and cultural growth.

This is a small number of writers and range of subjects, perhaps, but they show how much the young people of Kent are alive to the world and want to be heard, and we are deeply grateful for their willingness to blaze a trail.

Anthony Lyons Editor ajwl@kings-school.co.uk www.mindseyemagazine.com

Contents 4 | The Promised Land

16 | For Well or Ill

Ciara Barley, Francesca Annis & Leona Eissens

Dylan Uddin

12 | Dropping Jaws

22 | Stay Back Ana Moura

Gemma Humphries

16 | The Sound of Silence

Design:

Alice Oliver

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CIARA BARLEY, FRANCESCA ANNIS & LEONA EISSENS claim Herne Bay may not be Paris but it’s paradise compared to a camp in Calais

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erne Bay was once a quaint English park (there are several), standing around seaside town whose charm on a strip of grass and, particularly popular, welcomed tourists from all over the South standing around on the pavement. These East. This was 50 years ago. Now the seafront activities, though already exhilarating, can arcades and ice-cream parlours are stripped be supplemented with keying of cars or of life; strings of fairy lights hang limply and verbal abuse directed at strangers. But the flicker with taunting indolence; the streets youths are not to blame; their behaviour are littered with what looks like the remnants stems from mind-numbing, life-draining, of a boot fair: one sock, empty insufferable boredom. crisp packets and an old pair No more than 25 miles of goggles. The ensemble away there are people So I wonder why anyone of muted colours and the making one of the most would risk their lives to enter distant drone of arcade music dangerous journeys in this county of bleak seaside suggest a low-budget horror Europe, with no home, towns. Perhaps the refugees movie. are unaware of the barren no money and no reality of their destination. Or favourable odds.

But when the summer perhaps they are dreaming of comes, so do the tourists. The a fraction of the comfort I am procession of Volvos makes it impossible to privileged to take for granted. No more than travel, so all you can do is sit and listen to 25 miles away there are people making one screams of ‘Daddy, it’s the sea!’ and ‘Mummy, of the most dangerous journeys in Europe.

I’ve dropped my ice cream!’ They run as one, With no home, no money and no favourable new spades and buckets swinging, scaring odds, they seek refuge across The Channel – the local pensioners out for their midthe busiest shipping lane in the world. They morning constitutional. Some locals attempt place their only hope in a dinghy dwarfed cheer, managing a smile or murmuring by cargo ships and large ferries casting thanks. waves that could be catastrophic. With only thin layers of ragged clothing, their bodies Herne Bay caters to teenagers, boasting such struggle to stay awake and aware in the recreational activities as standing around freezing winds, since to fall asleep would risk on the sea front, standing around in a car slipping away altogether. 

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Escaping fear and conflict, they are depending on the mercy of cold waters and the honesty of strangers.

In Northern France, many prepare daily for that same journey because local police drive them out of any place where they happen to find refuge. Their few possessions are confiscated while they are sprayed with tear gas, an act of monumental inhumanity. Escaping fear and conflict, they are depending on the mercy of cold waters and the honesty of strangers to carry them safely to the shores of our country, our county.

I live in run-down, colourless, lifeless Herne Bay. But I’d happily step in dog mess, never get a parking space and put up with swarms of tourists for the rest of my life if it meant every immigrant risking life to cross The Channel could arrive safely and be fed, housed and welcomed.

Ciara Barley

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I’D HAPPILY PUT UP WITH SWARMS OF TOURISTS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE IF IT MEANT EVERY IMMIGRANT COULD ARRIVE SAFELY AND BE FED, HOUSED AND WELCOMED.

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he horrors of coastal living are clear in Herne Bay. Two words best sum up these horrors: seagulls and chavs. Resident or visitor, if you are unhappy it will be down to seagulls or chavs.

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WE NEED TO ASK OURSELVES WHY THESE MIGRANTS, OR IN FACT PEOPLE, TAKE SUCH HUGE RISKS JUST TO GET TO KENT.

Seagulls are the reason that no one – not even Queen Elizabeth II during her royal roamings to subdue a discontented populace – can eat their lunch in peace.

Seagulls are a human’s most hostile enemy and the most effective stalkers in the animal kingdom. In fact, you can bet that, once your foot is over the Kentish border, a seagull stalker will plague you until you leave. That is, if you do leave. Kent has a mysterious power that prevents its folk from ever moving away.

And as for the chavs, well, they are the reason we normal people, us average Joes, feel too on edge to relax at the beach or cinema or local greasy spoon. Simply put, chavs are sketchy. Their only goal in life is to make others feel as uneasy as possible by plotting the most heinous acts of vandalism and anti-social behaviour. One look at Herne Bay’s premier social media discussion forum, Herne Bay Chatter, reveals the depths of their depravity. They allow dogs to defecate on the pavement, park cars on double yellow lines and swagger down the road loudly conversing with their swaggering associates. Between the stalker seagulls and the criminal chavs, Herne Bay must be the world’s worst place to live.

And yet, if a Herne Bay resident ever got lucky enough to break Kent’s spell and jump on a ferry from Dover to Calais or Dunkirk, they should beware. The journey to France may take you past a small boat or rubber dingy being tossed about by the sea. So what? Fishermen in Calais will tell you that, even from a kilometre away, a ferry can pull one of their boats under. Who cares? On arrival in Calais, you may pass piles of rubble and rubbish, surrounded by  fencing. Not your problem? Wrong.

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LIVING IN A CONSTANT STATE OF TURMOIL, THESE PEOPLE – ‘MIGRANTS’ – FEEL CAST OUT. FOR THEM, IT’S DO-OR-DIE.

Their possessions are seized at every opportunity; they are sprayed with tear gas and are not given a shred of the human dignity we take for granted.

As residents of Kent, most of it closer to France than London, we should care. It is our problem. We need to ask ourselves why these migrants, or in fact people, take such huge risks just to get to Kent, especially when the horrors they have faced, and will continue to face on arrival in Kent, are far worse than seagulls and chavs.

sprayed with tear gas and are not given a shred of the human dignity we take for granted here in Herne Bay.

Living in a constant state of turmoil, It’s quite simple. These people, these people – ‘migrants’ – feel cast vulnerable people, are downright out. For them, it’s do-or-die. Either desperate. The ‘Calais Jungle’, a holding they take a chance with the minacious area so bad it has been compared Channel and flee for Kent, or face the elements and to an impenetrable execrable treatment in wilderness, now These people, Calais for yet another resembles the vulnerable people, are never-ending day. unthinkable: three downright desperate.

Despite this impossible miles of industrial The ‘Calais Jungle’ is a dilemma, more and wasteland, miserably holding area so bad it more migrants attempt inadequate forest and has been compared to pursue the former – sodden settlements to an impenetrable the battle at sea. The wilderness. belonging to the danger in crossing The disadvantaged, Channel is so severe it dispossessed and downtrodden. Their exposed tents shows beyond doubt the desperation and blankets do not provide any sort of migrants to leave France. To the of shelter. Rather, their possessions are people of Kent and most people in the seized at every opportunity; they are UK, their lifestyle is unimaginable.

If the only thing making your life miserable is seagulls or chavs, you are one of the lucky ones.

Francesca Annis

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IF THE ONLY THING MAKING YOUR LIFE MISERABLE IS SEAGULLS OR CHAVS, YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES.

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NO ONE DESERVES A PEOPLE TRAFFICKER AND A TINY BOAT THAT MIGHT CAPSIZE.

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come from Schoonebeek in the the sea. I pray for people in homes they Netherlands. Somebody has to, don’t feel safe in and need to escape. I and I bet you’ve never heard of the pray they get to experience a different place. I don’t blame you. Schoonebeek life. is the kind of place you drive through and forget, not realising that some I currently live in Herne Bay. It’s just me people actually make their lives there. and my mom now because my sister They do. I did. I spent got into an amazing We took our car, sold eleven years of my life university. I go to the house and got a in that place. Everyone school and I have a job. one-way ferry ticket to Our lives are happy. knew me and I knew Dover. Only minutes everyone.

Everyone deserves the from the ferry port in chance we had. No Calais, people were After a while, my family one deserves a people risking their lives. moved to a different trafficker and a tiny country. So in 2015 boat that might capsize my mom, my sister, my cat and I left in the wake of giant ships and strong for England. We took our car, sold the currents. house and got a one-way ferry ticket to Dover. It was super-easy for us but I didn’t realise that, only minutes from the ferry port in Calais, people were risking their lives trying to get to BEING A MIGRANT MYSELF, I HATE England. It is still happening right now.

Now I know how lucky I was and still am, so I count my blessings every day for being here and being able to live freely. I also pray. I pray for people on

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THE LABEL. I AM A MIGRANT WHO IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE IN ENGLAND. I WORK HARD TO CREATE A GOOD LIFE HERE.

I pray for people in homes they don’t feel safe in and need to escape.

I pray they get to experience a different life.

The media describe in derogatory ways the people who suffer this torment. The terms ‘migrants’ and ‘refugees’ are so loaded these days they may as well be insults. Being a migrant myself, I hate the label. I am a migrant who is lucky enough to live in England. I work hard to create a good life here and I’m not sorry for being a migrant, for living freely and happily in this country. I am, however, thankful that I am welcome here. Not everyone is as lucky as I am.

I live in Herne Bay, not many miles from Calais and Dunkirk. It may be only a boat ride away, but it’s a completely different life.

Leona Eissens

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GEMMA HUMPHRIES explains why we must save sharks from the jaws of extinction

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THANKS TO THE MEDIA, SHARKS ARE NO LONGER VIEWED AS BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE CREATURES, SO FISHERMEN GET AWAY WITH KILLING 100 MILLION EACH YEAR.

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hen people hear the word ‘shark’ they think ‘man-eater’. Thanks to the media, sharks are no longer viewed as beautiful and unique creatures, so fishermen get away with killing 100 million each year, or 11,000 per hour. But no one seems to realise that sharks are an endangered species that has been around 450 million years and without them the human race would face a crisis.

The population of most kinds of shark is rapidly declining because we kill them for their fins, which are made into soup flavoured with chicken or other meat in countries such as Hong Kong, China and Japan.

They also face the danger of air and water pollution, discarded plastic and climate change, all caused by human waste. Many shark species could become extinct within the next few decades. So what happens when we lose the key predator in a fragile ecosystem?

We would upset a vital natural equilibrium for a start. If the prey of sharks were no longer hunted, many other species would become extinct because predators in the middle of the food chain would begin to consume algae-eaters on a disastrous scale. The water would then be loaded with vast amounts of algae whose excretions would prevent the penetration of the water by sunlight, and before long coral reefs would perish. 

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SHARK NUMBERS ARE RAPIDLY DECLINING BECAUSE WE KILL THEM FOR THEIR FINS, WHICH ARE MADE INTO SOUP FLAVOURED WITH CHICKEN OR OTHER MEAT.

The impact of this ecological shift on human beings is not clear, but one thing is certain.

It will not be good. Ecosystems, both on sea and land, contribute to the balance of gases in our atmosphere but, most importantly, they contribute to the quality of the air we breathe. It is possible the extinction of sharks will result in less oxygen and, of course, we need oxygen to live. Not only this, but a decrease in various fish populations could mean less food for us, and with a growing global population and the land issues climate change presents, this is not ideal.

But we should not save sharks just because of what we need. The truth is that we have created a devastating problem for our planet and now we need to fix it. We will not achieve this if most people who take films such as Jaws to heart fear the very creatures we seek to protect.

I’m going to leave you with a statistic: each year only 17 humans are killed by sharks.

Sharks are beautiful, fascinating and misunderstood creatures and it is time we stopped being afraid. After all, right now it is the sharks, not us, who should fear the water.

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We have created a devastating problem for our planet and now we need to fix it..

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RIGHT NOW IT IS THE SHARKS, NOT US, WHO SHOULD FEAR THE WATER.

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d n u o S of Silence ALICE OLIVER says we can only make prgress as a group if we respect the views of the individual

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here is nothing more wonderful a never-ending series of lies constantly than freedom of speech,’ said being uncovered. We pretend that, Ilya Ehrenburg, Jewish Soviet once we know about the issues, they writer and historian. He’s right, and are addressed by someone else. Are many generations who have fought we so afraid of the truth that we’re not for such freedom would agree. In 2019, willing to even open our eyes to the children are taught that they can be possibility of making a difference? anything they want to The ad was banned be, that they don’t have You may be wondering because it counted as to be afraid to express how this affects you. a political campaign themselves, since Well, when applying video, and as a result everyone is equal. But is for university it is even more people have mandatory to fill out this really the case? viewed the piece online. all the information Recently Greenpeace required and tick all created an advert that Iceland, the the boxes: full name, gender, ethnic frozen food retailer, wanted to use at background, age, nationality and Christmas. It tells a sad story, exposing so on. In a world where everyone is the terrible truth about how we get someone, it seems as if this information our palm oil, used in so many of should be irrelevant. Judgement is a our household products. But the ad part of human nature. Everyone does was banned because it counted as it, whether intending to or not. So, a political campaign video, and as a deciding who will get a place and who result even more people have viewed will not is based on which applicants fit the piece, which is easily available the ‘quota’ rather than on natural talent online. Many of the population were and qualifications. When applying for outraged, no doubt causing grief for anything, the only things that should those who deemed it unfit to play on be important are the qualifications or a TV. This causes me to wonder how we personal statement – to decide who is receive our information and what and best fitted for the task. It seems unfair whom can we trust. We have always to put a ‘label’ on anyone. sought the truth but it appears there is

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Teachers are not permitted to share their political views because it counts as ‘forcing views’ upon students.

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IF WE TRULY HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THEN WHY ARE SO MANY OF US AFRAID TO STAND UP FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE IN?

In schools, especially secondary schools, teachers are not permitted to share their political views. According to various websites this is because it counts as ‘forcing views’ upon students.

It sounds reasonable enough, right?

Wrong. If we have so-called ‘freedom’ of speech, then why should it matter what the personal views of an individual are?

truly have freedom of speech, then why are so many of us afraid to stand up for what we believe in?

Although there have been many years In addition, students are taught that of disputes, campaigns and some they are perfectly capable of making drastic measures, it is said that we are their own decisions and are their own now able to freely believe whatever person, yet these sorts of rules are still we choose. But this couldn’t be further in place. There is a difference between from the truth. If we have complete forcing views and freedom of speech, simply stating an why is it that so many opinion, but it seems It seems as if every single of us do not feel free to opinion, no matter how as if the lines have speak? Almost every small, will be offensive to person at some point become blurred in the someone. eyes of many lately. in their life will have In many countries, been in a situation teachers are forbidden where their belief from teaching religion. They may about a certain matter is in the minority. educate children about religions but It can be so difficult to admit to these must take care with everything that is views because if the ‘wrong thing’ is said. This is because the authorities are said then an individual will be a social concerned about coercion of a student outcast. We have escaped one prison who will be put on the spot or will be of speech and landed right into a new afraid to support their religion. If we one. It seems as if every single opinion, no matter how small, will be offensive to someone. We are just as trapped in our minds as ever before, maybe even more. This raises the question that I am constantly asking myself: ‘Will we ever be fully free?’

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JUDGEMENT IS A PART OF HUMAN NATURE. EVERYONE DOES IT, WHETHER INTENDING TO OR NOT.

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DYLAN UDDIN celebrates George Orwell’s

insistence on telling the truth

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ric Arthur Blair, known as George suggest he lacked commitment despite his Orwell, established the modern talents. After academic failure, he joined the dystopia through some of his most famous Indian Imperial Police in Burma (1922) during works, for example 1984 and Animal the height of the British Empire. Here he Farm. Both portray a bleak authoritarian witnessed the horrors of imperialism, but his dictatorship where civil liberties are experience put power structures in context. vanquished and all hope is lost in a political He witnessed a colonial government with abyss. These novels generated total control over another, the buzzword ‘Orwellian’, and it sickened him. This which is defined as follows: was perhaps the birth of his Orwell witnessed a hatred for any sort of higher colonial government …an adjective describing authority. with total control over a situation, idea, or societal another, and it sickened condition that George Orwell Orwell soon quit to pursue him. identified as being destructive his love of writing. This saw to the welfare of a free and little success and thrust him open society. into a world of poverty, at first in Paris and then in London, still with no But what did Orwell see as destructive? And success in the world of letters. Through this why does Orwell see these ideas as so bad experience he was introduced to a class of they could destroy a free society? And most people he had once looked down on. Now importantly why do this one man’s beliefs he saw the human side of the outcast and about what’s destructive to society flood desperate. recent articles about politics?

His first commercial success painted a Orwell led a life full of tales. In his early gripping tale of his life in poverty. His own years, he had a mundane yet privileged publisher described Down and Out in Paris time winning awards for poetry. He won a and London as ‘disgusting yet something that scholarship to Eton where his opinionated needed to be read’. This book was a modern nature thrived but his academic reports indictment of capitalism that captured 

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ON 17 JULY 1936 ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE ACROSS THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND ORWELL QUICKLY ENLISTED TO FIGHT ON THE SIDE OF THE REPUBLICANS.

the hearts of many and placed Orwell in the spotlight as a political figure with his leftist beliefs on full display.

Orwell argues that without the words to think what you want you depend not on your individual judgment but on the state’s definition of existence.

On 17 July 1936 all hell broke loose across the Iberian peninsula. The Communist Republican party was against the far-right fascists, led by the infamous Francisco Franco. Orwell in their own power, bending the will of quickly enlisted to fight on the side of the masses to a will of their own. The the Republicans, determined to stand revolution lost its identity and became for the people against the certain the very thing it was supposed to fight oppression that would follow under against, a dictatorship. And so Orwell Franco. At first, it was great. He spoke developed a hatred for totalitarianism. fondly of the early To many the terms days in Madrid, a subTotalitarian and This utopia soon section of society that Orwellian are became a dystopia since was blind to class, in synonymous, but many of the faces of which Everyman was while the first focuses the revolution quickly put in the spotlight. on the suppression became immersed in Orwell saw this as an their own power, bending of freedom, the ideal society, where the will of the masses to second focuses on the the working class suppression of free a will of their own. held authority. This thought. utopia soon became a dystopia since many of the faces of the The fictional state of Oceania in 1984 revolution quickly became immersed embodies all that Orwell saw as unjust. Its inhabitants are brainwashed to the point that free thought has practically been eradicated through two main initiatives, Doublethink and Newspeak. Doublethink is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or even reverses the meaning

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POPULIST CANDIDATES LIKE DONALD TRUMP MANIPULATE LANGUAGE TO EXPLOIT THE DEMOCRATIC WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

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THE TERM ‘FAKE NEWS’ DISMISSES ALL CRITICISM, INCLUDING INCONTROVERTIBLE FACT.

of words: war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. The party distorts the meaning of the words love, freedom and strength, all words that threaten their regime. The repetition of such absurd phrases over and over again dulls to death the original concept in favour of a hatred that suits the dictator’s agenda. Newspeak is language purged of nuance so discourse has no meaning.

Only simple words remain. Orwell argues that without the words to think what you want you depend not on your individual judgment but on the state’s definition of existence.

Most people who think that with the rise of proper democracy Orwell is relevant only to the first half of the 20th Century need to think again. These days, politicians pander to every man who feels victimised by globalisation. Populist candidates like Donald Trump, Viktor Orban (President of Hungary) and Jair Bolsonaro (President of Brazil) manipulate language to exploit the democratic will of the people.

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‘THE FURTHER A SOCIETY DRIFTS FROM TRUTH THE MORE IT WILL HATE THOSE THAT SPEAK IT.’

For example, the term ‘Fake News’, often spouted by Donald Trump and his administration, dismisses all criticism, including incontrovertible fact. This new concept undermines language itself, blurs the lines between non-fiction and fiction and leaves the gate open to tyranny. It gives the state the chance to define in absolute terms what is right and wrong despite facts, leaving supporters with the limited range of thought depicted in 1984: ‘The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those that speak it.’

To combat the current suppression of free thought and retain our authenticity, we must not feel scared to speak the truth. We must promote individuals for their idiosyncrasies and respect their differing views. There is always hope as long as war is not peace, freedom is not slavery, and ignorance is not strength. Over to you.

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ANA MOURA laments the UK’s decision to withdraw from a community of generative diversity

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ONE MORNING RECENTLY, MY BROTHER WOKE ME TO SAY THAT IN A YEAR’S TIME WORLD WAR III WOULD START.

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pen minds have always benefited human kind; it is how we evolve. So I wonder why our politics today have taken a step back. The battle against racism was hard-fought and bloody, but are we not going back in time?

One morning recently, my brother woke me to say that in a year’s time World War III would start.

That morning he read that Ukraine and Russia, who always had tension between them, were having an ‘argument’. The Russians claimed the Ukrainians had trespassed in their waters, and they had every right to send off the ‘warnings’ that injured three to six people. The Ukrainians argued that Crimea is theirs and they have every right to travel in those seas. They also mentioned a treaty on the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov. You probably know this already, since it was all over the news.

My problem wasn’t with the Russians or the Ukrainians.

My problem was with my overwhelming sense of déjà vu. It was like 2012 all over again, when I used to look into the sunset and imagine the world burning up in flames because the Mayans had predicted the world would end that year. You might remember this, and you might have felt the same. (For more, search ‘Mayan Apocalypse BBC News’). They were wrong – it is now 2019 – but there are growing tensions 

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THERE ARE GROWING TENSIONS AROUND THE WORLD: ARTICLE 50, DONALD TRUMP AND HIS WALL, MACRON AND LES VESTES JAUNES, THE REFUGEE CRISES AND THE WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA.

I used to look into the sunset and imagine the world burning up in flames because the Mayans had predicted the world would end that year. around the world: Article 50, Donald Trump and his wall, Macron and les vestes jaunes, the refugee crises and the wars in the Middle East and Africa.

There is much going on, many things out of our control, such as the UK’s impending exit from the EU and the unpredictable future. However, books like Robert Preston’s What Have We Done (WTF?) really throw a stone in the lake. The Brexit vote, like Trump’s election and the rise of nationalism, was the people’s way of showing their unhappiness with the current status quo. They wanted a change, something new.

Citizens of the UK and the EU will be affected but we cannot yet say for sure whether it is a mistake or the best thing. Not only do present politics put our way of life in jeopardy but the consequences of past and continuous actions are catching up with us; we can’t wash our hands of Global Warming.

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THE RUSSIANS CLAIMED THE UKRAINIANS HAD TRESPASSED IN THEIR WATERS, AND THEY HAD EVERY RIGHT TO SEND OFF THE ‘WARNINGS’.

The decisions we make today, the decisions our leaders make today, will produce a chain reaction and affect our children and grandchildren. We have a responsibility not just for today but for years to come. It has long been known that outcomes are better when we join forces. Different cultures have different ways of thinking; it is when we bring this diversity together that new ideas spring to life and generate improvement in our present and future. So I’m sorry to see the UK taking such a backward step.

Different cultures have different ways of thinking; it is when we bring this diversity together that new ideas spring to life and generate improvement.

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