#NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJenniRussell "For years, Britain's inadequacies have been compensated for by its membership in the European Union. Now, they are about to become painfully apparent. ... Britain is not an economic powerhouse waiting to be liberated. We are a country of mediocre education and limited skills, whose preening vanity has prevented us from seeing our failings. Our membership in the European Union is not a set of restraints; it is what has been propping us up." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/opinion/dunkirk-christopher-nolan-brexit.html

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Context JenniRussell "How I wish that Christopher Nolan's new film, 'Dunkirk,' had not been released at this moment in history. The reviewers have been near unanimous in their praise: searing, complex, uncompromising about the savagery of war and death. Yet the essential message of the film, with its narrative of heroic retreat in order to fight another day, cannot help but feed the national pride in Britain's capacity to triumph eventually, no matter what the odds. Nothing could be less helpful to our collective psyche as the country blunders toward Brexit. We hear much about American exceptionalism, but Britain feels it, too" (28 July 2017). #PhenomnBrexit #2017_Dunkirk