Sam Taylor Wood, Still Life (2001) It’s amazing how long a nation can live with a bad idea. And how that idea ages, sours, rots and attracts all sorts of rodents. Of course I’m talking about Brexit. I was ten years younger when I watched the Newcastle results from a hotel room in Anstruther, where I was taking part in a workshop organised by Mozilla with people from all over the world. I would later spend almost £1.5K to get naturalised in January 2018. I learnt how to deal with import/export/duty to the EU & US for a client. I pay incredible amounts of duty on parcels to Canada now. Some of my favourite bands stopped travelling to the UK. Some friends moved away with their European partners or plan to leave as soon as their Irish passport comes through. Others lost their jobs and had to move back to where they came from because of their work visas. The list of losses is long. The problem is that loss turns into shame and we know where that takes us. In Albert Bandura’s Moral…
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