art How many months ago, am I traveling with my six-year-old daughter to Hong Kong. As we go out at the airport and ride a train, we share a short time stopping me to reflect on how different he is conceiving to someone I grew up. We sat in the Immaculate Seats, surrounded by LED lakes. He looked around and said: “Wow Pope, we don’t have trains like this in London.”
While wearing the week, and he pointed out other things he had never seen back home, his comment about the high speed train obtained with a wider resonance. Used to strain and collapsed public transport, my little girl introduced what economic power has moved to a different model of capitalism to the previous generation.
When I grew up in the head, Cool Britania Era In the 1990s, it was almost as the Prital of the world’s whole civilization. The only place ahead of progress in progress is the US. And even if it’s presented to MTV or Hollywood as the shining city on the hill, Smart Kids know it’s really Greece in Britain.
In school, we know how British is birthdown, the birthplace of industrialized capitalism and the democracy of parliamentary and long colonial rulers of places including Hong KongMakes an ideal form of social model somewhere. When we told the story how capitalism exits, through the english englosure of English and growth in the “Dark Satanic Mills in the Industrial Revolution. Magna Carta or Oliver cromwell cement of Power of Parliament.
Britain, the US and some parts of western Europe are the “developed world”. Anywhere “progressed”. And the development is a way. Different crises we saw in the news surrounding Africa, Asia or half the Middle East made as a painful step in maturity processes like Britain.
This is not the world that British children grow up in the 21st century today already experienced. Our trip to Hong Kong is a tight reminder to it. Back in 2014, the Chinese Island City-State was named over Overseas most of the young British professionals want to move to. In the second place is Dubai. Now, throughout Television programs Offered to the topic of young brits acting in “DXB”, along other Arab towns such as Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
In Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman pushes ahead with his views on Sci-Fi for the line – A futuristic, AI-Powered Linear City, where Smart Technology connects the inhabitants of moving between two coherent mirror skyscrapers with 170km in the desert. While many UK governments try and fail for years to improve plans for a high-speed railway line, HS2.
The affection of young British influences appeared for places that at the end of Autocraticic, no matter how much they used to gloss and rings they used, was not surprising. Football Clubs British British support can be owned by Gulf Royalty. The films they look at can look like it happened in LA but shot in UAE. The idea that these are the places you went if you wanted to “make it” done almost as the idea of following “American wishes) was a generation.
What does this transfer to the axis of our global order mean politically? As historian Quinn Slobodian is detailed in his 2023 books Crack-up capitalismHong Kong long acts as an ideal utopian for radical free markets trying to push a vision of capitalism without restricting democracy. Even Donald Trump, in his justice of justice for a trading war, always prevents the envy he felt in it ability to crush and prevent wages in a way that traditional constitutions are harder.
In Britain, it is more common for our politicians and journalists to discuss their admiration for the school stewards of public states in what “developing world” called. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Riyadh in February and said: “Saudi Arabia is a country where things happen with predominant speeds and decides. Frankly, we need to know that in the UK.” At the same time, Telegraphegraph Reporter Isabel Oakelot wrote a gushing piece that moved Dubai for cheaper private school school, saying “Unlike anger, Dubai is the last Multicultural Success Story“.
The idea that capitalism can best work in limited, or even before, democracy is quiet to be more acceptable. Last week, Oakeshott, representative reform of Oks, Richard Tice, Britain “aspiration of“The lower rate of crime and widespread national pride found in Dubai. That Emirati City is a perfect monarchy – often criticized SHOULD BE ACTIVITIES For those who are imprisoned by journalists, lawyers and political differences with no concern for public rights to independence – which is not related to the right right to celebrate the city “Right metropolis“.
With our political and media elites in the apparent celebration of Draconian regimes, the generation of my daughter grows to receive a distinctive “tradition of Britain. According to a Channel 4 study from earlier this year, 52% of Gen Zers The UK feels to be a better place “when a strong leader is in charge of no need to bother parliament and elections”. Unless our leaders begin to improve an alternative vision of how society is moving, and the British area of a world that your young people have feelings that the future is in other areas.
Kojo Koram appoints the School of Law in Birkbeck, University of London, and wrote to law issues, races and empire
