66. The disappearance of Europe from the British public eye
The biggest news this week, in global terms, was the announcement of the EU recovery fund which I covered in post 63. A huge effort in economic terms but, even more importantly, a rare exercise in cross border solidarity. However, despite its seminal importance, it is practically impossible to find in UK news. The EU is one of the subjects I read about the most. Tales of EU failure and woe often feature prominently at the top of my digital news, selected by algorithms which, day after day, try to build an understanding of my interests. But news of this fund was number 43 in the list presented to me, well below items of little importance which I have little interest in. This is peculiar. I am not given to believing in conspiracies, I have trained myself to reject them as oversimplistic explanations of haphazardly converging interests and motivations and, again, I am confident there is no conspiracy here. But it is worth studying. Big news should be big news, even if it is about the EU L...