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For many Pennsylvanians, the aspiration to be part of the State College family started young.
In the end, Miller is still a model whose image trades in aspiration.
The agreement was rich in aspiration but lacking in specific targets or timetables.
Republicans believe they are the party of aspiration, of the all-American yearning to get ahead.
And America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.
Carlyle had now to arrange the mode of life which should enable him to fulfil his aspiration.
The other was the aspiration to purify the nation, by removing the wrong of slavery.
Intelligence implies aspiration, as thought is aspiration to the good, iii.
That radiance at the summit is the delight and the aspiration of all below.
Each had its own significance and value in his estimation, as a dream, an aspiration of the human mind.
1530s, "action of breathing into," from Latin aspirationem (nominative aspiratio), noun of action from past participle stem of aspirare (see aspire). Meaning "steadfast longing for a higher goal, earnest desire for something above one" is recorded from c.1600 (sometimes collectively, as aspirations).
late 14c., "action of aspirating," noun of action from aspirate (v.).
aspiration as·pi·ra·tion (ās'pə-rā'shən)
The removal of a gas or fluid by suction.
The sucking of fluid or a foreign body into the airway when drawing breath.
A surgical technique used in the treatment of cataracts of the eye, in which an incision is made into the cornea, the lens capsule is severed, and the material of the lens is fragmented and aspirated by a needle.


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Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom's Relationship in Pictures
Earlier today, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr confirmed that they were splitting up. The couple, who met in 2007 and married in July 2010, welcome son Flynn Bloom in January 2011.
Bloom, who currently stars in Romeo & Juliet at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway, appeared on Live With Kelly and Michael this morning, making no mention of his separation, according to Us Weekly.
Launch the gallery to check out Bloom and Kerr's relationship over the past six years.


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NLANR is a collaboration of NCAR, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The partnership helps more than 170 NSF- funded High-Performance Connections sites connect to and use high- performance research network backbones like NSF's vBNS (very high performance Broadband Network Services).
NLANR develops software to help scientific users and network administrators, while designing analytical tools to help networks run smoothly. The NLANR staff works with researchers and staff at small- to mid-sized campuses and with commercial service providers, resulting in a broad impact on the networking and application communities. The award will be divided among three NLANR program teams:
In a paper published in Nature, Mete Uz, James Yoder, and Vladimir Osychny reported on their two-year analysis of satellite- derived data on chlorophyll and sea-surface height. The data show that oceanic planetary waveswhich travel in a westward directionare associated with 520% of the variability in chlorophyll concentration. The scientists theorize that disturbances in the ocean caused by these waves are bringing nutrients to surface waters on a global scale and affecting the production of phytoplankton.
Uz and his collaborators used ocean color data from NASA's SeaWiFS (Sea- viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) program and concentrated on the role of large planetary, or Rossby, waves in enhanced biological productivity. These waves can be hundreds of miles wide, but they are only a few centimeters in height, making them observable only through satellite imagery. A Rossby wave moves so slowly that it could take months or years to cross the ocean. As the wave passes, it causes water motion that pumps more nutrients from the depths to the surface waters of the ocean.
"For physical oceanography, this study presents one more tool with which to observe Rossby waves, especially their vertical dynamics," said Uz. "For biology, it illustrates for the first time a wave propagating through an ecosystem. This means that at the large spatial and temporal scales at which these waves operate, one cannot think of biology as a functional block separate from physics. If you want to guess what the productivity will be at a given location and time in the future, you cannot use a purely biological model. The coupling between physics and biology is important."
The study also adds indirectly to the scientific knowledge about the oceanic carbon cycle. Uz noted that variability in the oceans' biological productivity has a significant impact on projections of global climate change. Because we do not know enough about what controls productivity in the oceans, he said, "we are not in a position to make a reasonable guess about how the ocean will respond under different scenarios of global change. However, our research puts in place one more piece of the jigsaw puzzle of [the] oceanic carbon cycle."
Earthshine is readily visible to the naked eye, most easily during a crescent moon. Leonardo da Vinci first explained the phenomenon, in which the Moon acts as a giant mirror, showing the sunlight reflected from Earth. The brightness of the earthshine thus measures the reflectance of Earth.
In the 1 May issue of Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the California Institute of Technology report that Earth's albedo is currently 0.297, with a margin of error of 0.005.
"Earth's climate is driven by the net sunlight that it absorbs," says Philip Goode, leader of the NJIT team and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory. "We have found surprisingly largeup to 20%seasonal variations in Earth's reflectance. Further, we have found a hint of a 2.5% decrease in Earth's albedo over the past five years." If Earth reflected even 1% less light, the effect would be significant enough to be a concern with regard to global warming.
In the early 20th century, the French astronomer Andre-Louis Danjon undertook the first quantitative observations of earthshine. But the method lay dormant until Caltech professor Steven Koonin described its modern potential in a 1991 paper. The newly published data are the first that are precise and systematic enough to infer the relative health of Earth's climate.
The new albedo measurements are based on about 200 nights of observations of the dark side of the Moon at regular intervals over a recent two-year period, and another 70 nights during 199495. Using a six-inch refractor telescope and precise charge-coupled devices at Big Bear, the researchers measure the intensity of the earthshine. By simultaneously observing the bright "moonshine" from the crescent, they compensate for the effects of atmospheric scattering.
The study relies on averages over long periods, because the albedo changes substantially from night to night with changing weather, and even more dramatically from season to season with changing snow and ice cover. The locations of land masses also affect the albedo as Earth rotates on its axis.
It is significant that earthshine data suggest that the albedo has decreased slightly during the past five years, as the Sun's magnetic activity has climbed from solar minimum to maximum during that time. This supports the hypothesis that the Sun's magnetic field plays an indirect role in Earth's climate.
The study was funded by both NASA, beginning in 1998, and the Western Center for Global Environmental Change during 199495.
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Free Speech, Not the GOP, Is the Winner in Court Campaign-Finance Ruling
Today's Supreme Court ruling striking down provisions of the McCain-Feingold federal campaign-finance law is a tremendous victory for free speech in the United States. The 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission upholds the principle that that 2002 law and other similar attempts to regulate campaign finance flouted, namely, that the government should not regulate political speech.
The case grew out of a 2008 federal ban on the showing of a documentary film, Hillary: The Movie, during the presidential primaries in which Hillary Clinton, the object of the movie's criticism, was a candidate. McCain-Feingold allowed the Federal Election Commission to stop the showing of the film because a corporation produced it, even though the corporation in question was a nonprofit. This case aptly illustrated the way this law did not so much protect the electoral process from the corrupting influence of money as it protected politicians from the effects of political speech that they did not like. Far from bolstering the democratic process, McCain-Feingold suppressed it. Like just about every other campaign-finance law that has been passed since the 1970s, when the Watergate scandal gave impetus to a drive to "reform" election spending, this law did not eliminate the influence of money on politics, but it did play favorites as to which sort of speech may or may not be legal. While efforts to bring transparency into campaign finance remain laudable, the process by which money began to be shunted first into political action committees and then, in the wake of McCain-Feingold, into new classes of unaccountable groups did nothing to make the system fairer or cleaner. Instead, it granted a government agency the power to regulate or suppress the one kind of speech that the founders of our republic would have agreed was inviolate: political speech. The court has now chipped away at this expansion of federal power to allow corporations and other groups the freedom to advocate on elections as they please.
The responses to this ruling from some in the political class are predictable. President Obama has issued a call to Congress to pass legislation to overturn the will of the courts, something that we trust the new absence of a filibuster-proof majority for the Democrats will render impossible.
Interestingly, among the first reactions was a blog post by New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny, who claimed that, "at first blush, Republican candidates would seem to benefit from this seismic change in how political campaigns are conducted in America." To back this assertion up, he quoted the president's demagogic statement that claimed the "Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans."
As Zeleny also noted, labor unions and a host of Left-leaning groups are now also free to spend money to publicize their views, as they like. It should also be pointed out that the notion that big business is a dependable backer of the GOP is a myth. The crony capitalism that the bank bailouts have highlighted in the past two years has aptly illustrated the fact that many industries, including the denizens of Wall Street, have a stronger loyalty to corporate welfare that benefits them than they do to the principles of free enterprise. The steady flow of money from firms such as Goldman, Sachs (the principal survivor and beneficiary of the latest shakedowns) to Democratic candidates like Obama is proof of this.
The point here is that more political speech is not a danger to the republic; it is instead the lifeblood of democracy. The only ones to gain from the suppression of views via campaign-spending laws are those politicians who are the subject of critical scrutiny. Acting in the name of "reform," campaign-finance-restriction advocates have sought to restrict political speech, effectively empowering the politicians and the mainstream media at the expense of the electorate. In a democracy, the people must be free to sort out the views of a host of disparate elements. The free flow of critical advertisements and independent documentaries such as Hillary: The Movie challenge the monopoly of public expression that such a system breeds. Let's hope this ruling marks the beginning of the end of an era in which the political class used its legislative power to silence their critics.
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Trump Quietly Gives Putin What He Wants
Quid pro quo?
Until now, the notion that Donald Trump was providing Russia and Vladimir Putin with concessions at the expense of U.S. interests was poorly supported. That all changed on Wednesday afternoon when the Washington Post revealed that Donald Trump ordered his national security advisor and CIA director to scrap a program that provided covert aid to anti-Assad rebels in Syria.
The president made that decision on July 7, within 24 hours of his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The sources who spoke to the Washington Post accurately characterize it as a reflection of "Trump's interest in finding ways to work with Russia." That is a fool's errand but, more important, this move demonstrates that the United States is willing to cede ground to adversaries and bad actors as long as they are persistent enough.
I endeavored to demonstrate as thoroughly as I could why American interests in Syria and those of Russia not only do not align but often conflict violently. The president appears convinced, like his predecessor, that his personal political interests are better served by allowing Moscow to be the power broker in Syria—even if that makes America and its allies less safe.
Moscow has made it a priority to execute airstrikes on American and British covert facilities in Syria, and Donald Trump has just rewarded those air strikes on U.S. targets. Trump has sacrificed the goodwill he garnered from Sunni-dominated Middle Eastern governments when he executed strikes on Assad's assets and, as recently as June, the U.S. downed a Syrian warplane for attacking anti-ISIS rebels laying siege to the Islamic State capital of Raqqa.
America will continue to provide support to indigenous anti-ISIS rebels, despite the fact that those forces are often under assault from both Russian and Syrian forces. It should be noted, however, that the CIA suspended aid to Free Syrian Army elements when it came under attack from Islamist in February. The agency said it didn't want cash and weapons falling into Islamist hands, but this move exposes that claim as a mere pretext.
This concession to Russia is significant not just because it removes some pressure on Moscow's vassal in Damascus. It sends a series of signals to the world's bad actors, who will inevitably react.
The phasing out of aid for anti-Assad rebels (presumably the indigenous Sunni-dominated factions) gives Russia and Syria the only thing they've ever wanted: the ability to frame the conflict in Syria as one between the regime and a handful of radicals and pariahs. A cessation of aid will squeeze the remaining moderate, secular rebel factions in Syria and compel them to seek whatever assistance they can—even at the risk of augmenting the ranks of Islamist insurgents. How that advances America's interests is entirely unclear.
This move will only further embolden not just Russia and Syria but their mutual ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran. It will convince the region's Sunni actors that the United States is not on their side—a matter of increasing urgency in Iraq. The insurgency in Syria is unlikely to end so long as regional fighters have a means of getting into the country. America will simply sacrifice its leverage over those groups.
This move will confirm, finally, that the use of weapons of mass destruction in the battlefield is survivable. A truly resolute American administration might fire off a handful of Tomahawk missiles at an abandoned airfield, but regime change is not in the offing. That will only beget other bad actors who will test the parameters of America's willingness to defend the international norms prohibiting the use of WMDs. Because American servicemen and women are stationed around the world in unstable theaters, the likelihood that they will one day be fighting on chemical battlefields just became a lot more likely.
American covert involvement in Syria also filled a vacuum that the Obama administration allowed to expand in 2011 and 2012. "One big potential risk of shutting down the CIA program is that the United States may lose its ability to block other countries, such as Turkey and Persian Gulf allies, from funneling more sophisticated weapons—including man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADS—to anti-Assad rebels, including more radical groups," the Washington Post speculated. Ironically, American withdrawal from the anti-Assad effort could actually fuel the fire, but in a way that we can neither control nor effectively influence. We've seen that movie before. We know how it ends.
And all of this is for what? To garner goodwill with the bloody regime in Damascus? To court Moscow or Tehran? There is nothing to gain from cozying up to these regimes that is not offset by the sacrifice of American national interests and moral authority associated with rapprochement. For all of the Trump administration's criticisms of Barack Obama's policy with regard to those regimes, this decision suggests he's willing to double down on Obama's mistakes.
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Voters in the Age of Affect
Is it Trump's posture, or is it simpler than that?
Though it enjoys a level of political dominance unseen since the 1920s, the Republican Party's agenda is stalled. Yet, despite their failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Republicans are damned like Sisyphus to keep trying. Republican office holders must now administer health care's taxes and subsidies, and the rest of the GOP agenda cannot advance without freeing up the revenue dedicated to the administration of ObamaCare. A dysfunctional, one-party Congress led by an unpopular neophyte in the Oval Office should precipitate a backlash among voters. But that outcome is far from certain. Ubiquitous surveys and studies dedicated to uncovering the mystery that is the curious and contradictory Trump voter suggests that this may indeed be a new political epoch.
Nationally, Trump's job-approval rating hovers around 40 percent. By contrast, a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of adults in "Trump country" (e.g. the counties that voted for Donald Trump) found the president enjoying a 50 percent job approval rating. Reflecting on these numbers, WSJ columnist Jason Riley observed that the political world may still be operating on a set of assumptions that do not apply to Trump; critically, that voters are transactional and that their support for politicians is contingent upon delivery.
"I think there's a lot of evidence to support the idea that Trump's main appeal was validating the fears and concerns of a certain segment of Americans who felt they were being ignored by elites in the media, elites in politics, elite Republicans," Cato Institute scholar and pollster Emily Ekins told Riley. That assertion is supported by the findings of another survey. A Washington Post/ABC News poll taking the temperature of the potential midterm electorate found that registered voters prefer a Democrat-led Congress over Republicans by a staggering 14 points. Democrats shouldn't celebrate too soon, however. The survey also showed that those who "strongly support" Trump are more motivated to vote in 2018 than are those who strongly disapprove of the president, and by a whopping 11-point margin.
This should not be. Voters should be discouraged by legislative failure, internecine feuding, and sprawling legal investigations into a nascent presidency. Voters should be repulsed by a party that sends to Congress members who physically assault journalists. They should be disgusted by a president who describes people on television he dislikes as "psycho" and "bleeding badly from a facelift." They should be unnerved by the fact that this president spent months spinning an erroneous exculpatory tale about his campaign's links to Russian-affiliated operatives only to pivot to defending those links when the lie was exposed for what it was. But they're not.
This is politics in the age of affect. As Riley observed, the voters who have received disproportionate scrutiny from the press demonstrate time and again that their support for the president is not contingent upon his achievements but his posture. He speaks to their concerns, even if he is ineffectual in his attempts to address them. His speech is not overburdened with pompous language. He does not moralize; he does not lecture; he clings to his character flaws like a security blanket. He eats poorly and his physique reflects it. Trump is no Olympian figure; he gets down into the mud even when he shouldn't.
Republican political professionals are starting to build an identity for their party around Trump's effective affectation. If Republican voters no longer care about the policies that allegedly so vexed them in the Obama years, then they will have to run on the cultural anxiety that Donald Trump so effectively marshals. There may be no better way to accomplish that than to use the political press as a foil.
A striking McClatchy report in June indicated that Republican strategists are preparing to rely heavily on media-bashing to retain control of Congress in 2018. "The press is held with disgust and contempt," said Tobe Berkovitz, an advertising expert who advises state-and district-level campaigns. "Battling the press isn't a bad strategy."
It is, however, possible that political reporters and analysts are reading more into this moment than it deserves. Perhaps Trump's voters are as transactional as anyone, but we're reading the receipts wrong. Maybe Trump's prickly demeanor and bull-headedness is part of his appeal, but not all of it.
The polling suggests that something simpler may be at work here. Only 40 percent approved of Donald Trump's job performance in the latest Bloomberg survey released on Monday, but it also found that 58 percent of respondents reported feeling closer to realizing their career and financial goals (a record high since the question was introduced in early 2013). On the economy and "creating jobs," Donald Trump dramatically outperforms his overall job-approval numbers (46 and 47 percent approval, respectively). The Washington Post/ABC News poll confirmed Bloomberg's findings. Despite his abysmal 36 percent job approval rating in that survey, 43 to 41 percent reported approving of Trump's handling of the economy.
Surely some of this is perceptional; the Trump administration's handling of the economy is six months old and characterized not by substantive reforms but by aesthetics and gestures. It is also aspirational. After eight years of recession and a sluggish recovery, Trump-country voters are exhausted by insecurity. The benefits of the Trump years are tangible for Trump voters, even if political journalists see them as illusory. Maybe political analysts are poring over the Trump voter to their own detriment. Maybe it's still the economy, stupid.
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Iran's Newest Hostage is Different
An escalation.
On July 16, 2017, Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi announced that Iran had sentenced an American to ten years in prison for alleged espionage. An Iranian judiciary website subsequently identified the American as 37-year-old, China-born Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University Ph.D. student in history.
Hostage-taking is nothing new for the Islamic Republic. Indeed, since revolutionary students acting on behalf of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini first seized the U.S. Embassy on November 4, 1979, hostage-taking has become a central pillar of Iranian policy. For authorities in Tehran, the reason for hostage-taking is simple: It's a strategy which has repeatedly paid off. The Carter administration rewarded Iran with millions of dollars and diplomatic concessions. Ronald Reagan, for all his tough rhetoric as a campaigner, did likewise with the arms-for-hostages policy, a scheme that backfired when Iran seized even more hostages once it had received the last delivery of weaponry and spare parts.
President Obama likewise rewarded Iranian hostage-taking by paying Iran over $1 billion for the release of imprisoned Americans, although he inexplicably left Robert Levinson, the longest-held American hostage, behind. No sooner had the U.S. government transferred the ransom in cash to a waiting Iranian plane (controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), then Iranian security forces seized several more Iranian Americans and permanent residents, most prominently Iranian American businessman and political activist Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer.
What makes Wang's arrest and imprisonment different is that Wang presumably had an Iranian visa. Americans must get a visa in advance and, on the off-chance Wang was traveling on a Chinese passport, he would likely also have required a visa, although there is some wiggle-room for Chinese citizens with confirmed bookings in five-star hotels.
Other Americans who were arrested in Iran in the years since the Embassy seizure were traveling on Iranian passports: Iran does not recognize dual citizenship for Iranians and requires Iranian-Americans to travel on Iranian documents. Renouncing Iranian citizenship takes an act of Iran's parliament, and so it is beyond the means for pretty much every Iranian-American. The Iranian government has no desire to ease that restriction for both ideological reasons—it's hard to demonize "the Great Satan" when so many Iranian citizens want to live in the United States—and because the requirement for Iranian-Americans to register births and keep passports current is a cash cow for the Iranian foreign ministry. When Iran has seized Americans, there, it has operated under the legal fiction that those arrested were simply Iranian citizens. Often, Iranian diplomats tell State Department and the Swiss diplomats who look out for American citizen interests in Iran to buzz off.
Levinson was a slightly different case: He traveled without a visa to Kish Island, an Iranian free trade zone which is visa-free (but which is dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' business interests). Regardless, the fact remains: previous Americans seized in Iran were not traveling on U.S. passports with Iranian visas.
Wang's arrest hits home for me as I went to Iran—with proper Iranian visas in my passport—for a total of seven months while I was working on my history Ph.D. Since I received my doctorate and since I won't self-censor what I think or write about the Iranian regime in order to gain access, I have since been unable to get the Iranian visa, even when I have been invited for academic conferences in my field. There's never an outright rejection—just an endless series of "maybe tomorrow"—until the conference has come and gone. For academics and other Americans, however, there was always an understanding, that if the Iranian foreign ministry (and behind-the-scenes, the Iranian intelligence ministry) issued a visa and the visa-holder behaved him or herself, there would be no serious problems.
So what does Wang's arrest mean? First, he represents the human cost of the Obama administration's willingness to pay ransom. Second, that the security forces and judiciary targeted him suggests both that they have augmented and consolidated control despite all the Western self-deception about Iranian moderation and also that they wish to humiliate the United States. Wang's arrest is also a signal by those who control Iran that Americans should think twice about traveling to the country. The New York Times may profit handsomely from its Iran tours, but Iran may profit more if they refuse to allow one or more of those tourists to depart.
No hostage-taking is acceptable, and the fact that any Western diplomat would trust, let alone tolerate, their Iranian counterparts absent an Iranian renunciation of the practice past and present reflects poorly on both the United States and Europe. The fact that Iran targeted an Iranian visa holder rather than an "Iranian citizen" suggests the Islamic Republic is crossing lines even they have long avoided.
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Trump's Naïveté on Display in Syria
The hen house is secured.
Eric Edelman–a former undersecretary of defense in the Bush administration, an aide to Vice President Cheney, and one of the most respected foreign policy hands in Washington–wrote that the July 7 meeting in Hamburg between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was the most disastrous superpower summit since John F. Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. That Cold War-era summit emboldened the Soviets to put up the Berlin Wall and send missiles to Cuba, thus bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. It's a harsh judgment, but its essential accuracy is being confirmed by what we have learned since July 7.
Trump appears proud of the fact that he actually raised with Putin the issue of Russian meddling in the U.S. election. But the way he did so engenders no confidence. According to Edelman, "Tillerson is reported to have told associates privately that he was stunned that the president opened the discussion by saying 'I'm going to get this out of the way,' in effect signaling his lack of seriousness about the issue."
Trump's own account is hardly more reassuring. On July 12, on his way back to Europe, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: "I said to [Putin], were you involved with the meddling in the election? He said, absolutely not. I was not involved. He was very strong on it. I then said to him again, in a totally different way, were you involved with the meddling. He said, I was not–absolutely not." Having failed to extract a confession from Putin, Trump then moved on to talking about Syria. What else can you do, he told reporters—"end up in a fist fight"?
What Trump should have done—what any other president would have done—was not ask Putin whether he did something that the U.S. intelligence community knows he did. The president should have said, "We know you did this—and here are the consequences." Only Trump himself won't publicly accept that Russia was the sole hacker, and he's not interested in meting out any consequences. Indeed, his administration is lobbying to water down in the House a Russia-sanctions bill approved by the Senate.
One of the summit achievements that Trump trumpeted initially was an agreement to form with Russia an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, [and] many other negative things, will be guarded and safe." This fox-guarding-the-hen-house proposal was met with such universal derision that within hours Trump disowned the idea, shortly after his Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin had loyally praised it on TV.
But Trump is still standing by the other summit take away, which was the announcement of a limited ceasefire in southwestern Syria. "We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives," Trump tweeted. "Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!"
In point of fact, the agreement between the U.S. and Russia did nothing more than ratify a unilateral truce announced the previous week by the Syrian government in this area so that Bashar Assad could focus his hard-pressed forces on other parts of the country. The truce is unlikely to hold for long, but it is already being met with considerable concern in Israel, since the territory in question borders the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and the land of Israel's ally, Jordan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out in stark terms against the ceasefire on Sunday, breaking with Trump to do so, because the Israeli security establishment is worried that the ceasefire will allow Iran and its Hezbollah proxies to consolidate their control of this strategically important land.
This development highlights the tension between Trump's anti-Iran policy (his national security adviser at the time, Mike Flynn, put Iran "on notice" in February) and his more accommodating stance toward Iran's ally, Russia. Contrary to what Rex Tillerson naively says, Russia does not have the same interests in Syria as the U.S. does. Russia is in Syria to consolidate Bashar Assad's rule—not to fight ISIS or other Sunni terrorist groups, except insofar as they pose a danger to Assad's rule.
To achieve its aims in Syria, Russia is working hand-in-glove with Iran, which remains Assad's most important sponsor. Iran's goal is to create a new Iranian sphere of influence stretching from Tehran to Beirut, and it is well on its way toward achieving that objective. The expansion of Iranian power is a mortal threat to Israel and a serious danger for other U.S. allies in the region.
Given the way that Moscow is collaborating with Tehran, Trump cannot be anti-Iran and pro-Russia. It's a package deal—choose one or the other. The worry is that at Hamburg Trump may have chosen Russia.
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The 'Intersectionality' Trap
No more Sister Souljah moments.
Republicans didn't always scoff dismissively at the self-destructive, reactionary, fractious collection of malcontents who call themselves The Resistance. The hundreds of thousands who marched in the streets following Donald Trump's election once honestly unnerved the GOP. This grassroots energy culminated in January's Women's March, a multi-day event in which nearly two million people mobilized peacefully and, most importantly, sympathetically in opposition to the president. It was the perfect antidote to the violent anti-Trump demonstrations that typified Inauguration Day, and it might have formed the nucleus of a politically potent movement. The fall of the Women's March exposes the blight weakening the left and crippling the Democratic Party.
The fever sapping Trump's opposition was evident in microcosm on Monday in the meltdown of the Women's March's social-media presence on Twitter. "Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur," the organization wrote, dedicating the day's resistance-related activities in her "honor." Shakur is perhaps better known as Joanne Chesimard, the name that appeared on the court documents in connection with her being tried and convicted of eight felonies, including the execution-style murder of a New Jersey State Trooper. She currently resides in communist Cuba, a fugitive from American justice.
The outrage that followed the Women's March's endorsement of a cop-killer, exile, and unrepentant black nationalist was such that the organization was compelled to explain itself. "[T]his is not to say that #AssataShakur has never committed a crime, and not to endorse all of her actions," the group flailed. "We say this to demonstrate the ongoing history of government [and] right-wing attempts to criminalize and discredit political activists." This fanatical display of befuddlement perfectly encapsulates the logic of "intersectionality." It demonstrates why this vogue ideology shackles its devotees to doomed causes and sinking ships.
"Intersectionality," the beast born in liberal hothouses on college campuses, slouches now toward the halls of power. It is a Marxist notion that all discrimination is linked because it is rooted in the unjust power structures that facilitate inequality. Therefore, there are no distinct struggles against prejudice. Class, race, gender, sexual identity; these and other signifiers are bound together by the fact that oppression is institutional and systemic. The problem with this ideology is it compels its adherents to abandon discretion. To sacrifice anyone with a claim to oppression is to forsake every victim of prejudice. So, sure, Assata Shakur robbed, assaulted, incited violence, and killed a cop. But she also hates capitalism and white supremacy. Therefore, she's one of us.
It is this logic that has rendered the "Sister Souljah moment" a relic of the past, and The Resistance is drowning in Sister Souljahs.
One of the March organizers, Linda Sarsour, has enjoyed newfound popularity and legitimacy in the age of Trump. She is a self-styled organizer for civil rights and the Muslim-American community of which she is a part, and she's been acclaimed by organizations like the ACLU and Demos. Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand described Sarsour and her colleagues as "the suffragists of our time." In return for this lavish praise, Sarsour has only forced her defenders into awkward positions.
Sarsour has praised Saudi Arabia's social welfare state as appropriate compensation for stripping women of privileges such as driving a car. "I wish I could take their vaginas away," she wrote of women like the Somali-born Dutch-American activist and genital-mutilation victim Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "You'll know when you're living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans [and] credit cards become interest-free. Sound nice, doesn't it?" she asked. While delivering the keynote address to a Muslim-American conference, Sarsour advocated "jihad" against Donald Trump, defining the term to mean only speaking truth to power. Rather than admonish their political ally for this obvious indiscretion, the American left went to the mattresses to explain that only they understand the true meaning of the word "jihad."
For some on the left, advocating violence is not only justified but fashionable. Misanthropic so-called "anti-Fascist" activists like Shanta Driver and Yvette Felarca have become a ubiquitous presence in pro-Resistance mythology. People like Driver advocate for "militant actions" while Felarca appears at the head of armed mobs "resisting" the white supremacist alt-right "by any means necessary" (which happens to be the name of the organization to which she belongs). For this "activism," these and other "anti-fa" organizers are feted by left-wing magazines like Mother Jones and The Huffington Post.
Amid the celebration of left-wing political violence, a man who had been radicalized by liberal politics attempted the mass assassination of Republican members of Congress. Far from dwelling on this potentially generation-defining attack, the event passed through the national consciousness like an apparition. We don't talk about that now. Perhaps we don't want to think about what it might portend.
None of these individuals have roots in Democratic politics so deep that they cannot be deracinated relatively painlessly. Indeed, their counterproductive behavior would compel any competent political operation to make an example or two—particularly an operation struggling to demonstrate that it can be trusted again to govern seriously and effectively. Yet the Democratic Party and the liberals who animate it have come under the spell of a philosophy that explicitly forbids the exorcism of its demons.
Republicans have their devils, too. The excision of which may not seem a terribly urgent project today, given the GOP's political dominance. They will confront that crisis soon enough. In the interim, Democrats should be remaking themselves to appeal to the existing electorate; the one that delivered to the GOP near total control of state and federal government over just six years. Instead, Democrats are voluntarily yoking themselves to their most radical elements even as the number of Americans who describe the party as "too extreme" continues to climb.
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From a young age my dad and I have gotten along great, I told him everything and had a better relationship with him rather than my mother. I had recently been raped by someone, and when he found out he was obviously very angry towards the person, then i ended up confiding in him with other things that happen, eg. the time i had lost my virginity, things i had done. I realise it is a strange for me to confide in him with things like this, but I just thought we were good friends.
I realised that i didn't like how close we were when he began telling me things he had done, it made me feel sick..because well, he is my dad, I see him as my carer and listener, i think I used him as a..sort of person to talk to, psychiatrist or something. Didn't really want/expect him to share with me, but that is inconsiderate of me i guess.
My parents are recently divorced, I am fine with this because I know why my mother left, but I am uncomfortable around my dad, he ended up telling me that he is sexually attracted to me. I am very very accepting of anything anyone tells me, and i try to help and resolve it. So I tried to understand why, but I could not get over the fact that it make me sick to my stomach, i don't know if it is normal, because i usually believe everything is normal..because its happening and everyone thinks differently.
He began buying me more things, and high heels, then wanting to buy me lingerie and see me in it, i felt sick, but let him, but i didn't let him see me in the clothes he bought me, as i realised i wouldn't be able too, even though i love him. He also says that the way for him to get over things he shouldn't be okay with e.g. me having sex and being a sexual person with men and women. he makes himself like it, but now he can't go back. And that with my mother not being there, I am the only one who listens and cares, which i do! but why did he turn it sexual..
I often wake up and find incest porn in tabs on our home computer, i automatically close it. He tells me he will never hurt me by doing anything to me, because he loves me, and cares more about my happiness than his. So I know i have nothing to be afraid of, but I just can't take it. I can feel him staring at me thinking sexual things, or i go to sleep knowing he is watching incest porn.
I have tried to get over it and convince myself it is normal, as he has also told me that it is and I'm too young to understand..but i explain that this is not the case! I simply am NOT sexually attracted to him, it makes me feel sick. I know i can't change his thoughts, but I know he won't do anything..
what am I supposed to think? I am really trying to be okay with it, am I disgusting for letting him know the details of my life, and did i bring it on myself? I didn't think this would happen.. I don't know how to sort it out and feel comfortable around him, because he is a cool guy, but I obviously can't get over that he Is sexually attracted to me! Is it my fault? I don't hate him, but I just wish he didn't tell me..I feel disgusting in myself knowing that i made him think like this, so i shouldn't be allowed to feel disgusted by him..
is it all my fault..


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Rebalancing compliance
120. A key feature of the new system is the transfer
of responsibility for enforcement of immigration control from
the UK Border Agency to employers. It introduces a process of
sponsorship whereby all migrants, with the exception of those
under Tier 1, must be sponsored by an employer, educational institute
or certain other categories of overarching body. Sponsors take
on compliance responsibilities for migrants, including duties
to: keep accurate and up-to-date records, report changes in circumstances,
comply with the law, co-operate with the UK Border Agency, and
meet any additional tier-specific dutiesfor example, applying
the Resident Labour Market Test.[134]
The Government set out the rationale for this reconfiguration:
The policy intent underpinning sponsorship is that
those who benefit from migrationnot just the Government,
but also employers and educational institutionsshould play
a part in ensuring the system is not being abused.[135]
121. Businesses cautiously welcomed the sponsorship
system. John Cridland of the Confederation of British Industry
told us "as an organisation we have accepted that we needed
to step up to the plate and share the responsibilities to make
sure the system is managed".[136]
The Institute for Employment Studies reported that research conducted
with potential sponsors had found that:
Overall, there was qualified support for the proposed
sponsorship rating system
most participants responded positively
to the proposals regarding compliance and felt it was both common
sense to work in partnership with BIA [now UKBA] around this issue
and that the monitoring procedures were reasonable.[137]
122. Witnesses made clear, though, that, as a
correlative to increased compliance responsibilities, they would
expect a higher level of service from the UK Border Agency. Mr
Cridland told us "all we ask in return is that the service
level from the Border Agency in terms of guidance sent out at
the appropriate time, guidance right first time, helplines staffed
by people who can answer questions, here and in international
posts, has to be right".[138]
123. The education sector had a specific worry
about the impact of compliance arrangements on the relationship
between education provider and student. The London School of Economics
(LSE) told us:
Our concern, which is shared by many UK universities,
is that these additional responsibilities might fundamentally
change the university/student relationship. Students may well
view the universities as monitoring students on behalf of the
UK Government. For many of them, particularly those who have come
from countries with more authoritarian regimes, this may affect
their enjoyment of UK higher education, which in turn may have
knock-on consequences for the 'brand' over the medium term.[139]
Sponsor licensing process
124. Organisations wishing to become sponsors
must apply to the UK Border Agency for a sponsor licence. The
UK Border Agency carries out an inspection of the prospective
sponsor, including of their human resources processes, before
issuing them with a licence. Approved sponsors are awarded an
'A' or 'B' rating by the UK Border Agency. A 'B' rating is transitional,
meaning that the sponsor must improve their performance according
to a tailored plan. Strict penalties have been introduced against
any sponsor who does not fully meet the new compliance and reporting
125. Our witnesses were concerned on the one
hand that sponsors were being asked to provide a lot of detailed
information which sponsors might struggle to access; and on the
other that the potential penalties for any failure to provide
this information, even unwittingly, were unduly stringent.
126. During our visit to India in October 2008
the National Association of Services and Software Companies (NASSCOM)
told us that it was concerned that employers could be penalised
for not reporting information, even when the employee did not
inform them of any changes in their circumstance. Research conducted
by the Institute for Employment Studies uncovered similar concerns
amongst education providers.[140]
The Immigration Law Practitioners' Association reported that many
of their members were being instructed by anxious employers for
the same reasons. Sophie Barrett-Brown told us:
Most of the clients that our members represent are
extremely anxious about ensuring that they can meet the new duties.
Some of them are exceedingly onerous and unclear. There are duties
about reporting changes, including such minutiae as changing mobile
phone provider, the type of data that is very difficult for an
employer to ensure that they are capturing.[141]
Sarah Lee, partner at Slaughter and May law firm,
remarked that: "my understanding is that the penalties are
very stringent even for technical breaches and there are severe
consequences, both civil and criminal".[142]
127. Des Hudson of the Law Society criticised
the powers of inspection that have been afforded to the UK Border
Agency in carrying out compliance checks:
The things that concern me are the very ill-defined
and rather vague rights of entry and inspection of documents.
We must all be concerned about authorities having power to come
in and go through the files of a law firm. The files and papers
that they can look at are not explicitly limited to those matters
relating to sponsorship. Let us say that I am acting as a solicitor
for a prominent Member of this House who is the subject of police
investigations and I have a file on it and I also have some people
from the Abu Dhabi office working in my office. I think we would
all be very concerned about the powers of UKBA to go through my
Mr Hudson proposed that the powers of entry and inspection
given to UK Border Agency officials should be restricted "to
be exercisable by reference to looking only at papers relation
to an issue concerning an individual who is being sponsored. I
would like to see
some arrangement as to what conditions
must be satisfied by UKBA before it can exercise those powers
of entry".[144]
128. Some witnesses were concerned about the
administrative burden, particularly on small businesses. The Highly
Skilled Migrants Forum told us that:
The risk of misunderstanding any aspect of the PBS
in terms of duties as a sponsor would effectively bankrupt smaller
businesses, yet demands significant financial investment in fees,
legal advice and employing HR staff with the requisite expertise.[145]
It concluded that "given
the red-tape,
recordkeeping, and monitoring, only large firms with HR departments
will plan on becoming Tier 2 sponsors".[146]
Sponsorship Management System
129. Administration of the sponsorship process
rests on a new Sponsorship Management System (SMS)a secure
online IT system which allows licensed sponsors to bring in and
manage migrants under Tiers 2, 4 and 5. Designated individuals
within a sponsoring organisation are granted differing user rights
to the system. Sponsors use the SMS to provide and update information
about their migrants, view and issue certificates of sponsorship,
and make payments.
130. Universities were sceptical of the capacity
of the Sponsorship Management System to handle the intensive period
of demand during the three month university enrolment season,
during which up to 80,000[147]
students might need to be registered; and of the speed with which
it was being implemented by the UK Border Agency. Simeon Underwood
told us:
We have repeatedly warned UKBA that PBS is going
to result in a very high level of demand on their system in a
very concentrated space of time, principally between July and
September each year. We do not wish to assume the worst but what
we would like to see is more discussion about the precise specification
and the way that the UKBA system can integrate with the student
record systems that exist. We would also like to see piloting
going on.[148]
131. Witnesses elucidated the consequences for
the higher education sector and the UK economy if any failure
in the Sponsorship Management System prevented universities competing
effectively for international students. Professor Wellings told
us that "higher education is worth something like £19.5
billion to the UK economy. International students are worth 8
per cent of that".[149]
Mr Underwood said that, if the system failed:
We would be totally unable to plan for the year that
is happening around us
from the point of view of our finances
this could be very dramatic indeed. We could find ourselves having
to rearrange substantial parts of our curriculum and timetable
at very short notice.[150]
Professor Wellings added:
There are some strategic things that would follow
very quickly. You would see rather forensic holes appearing in
the system at discipline level that would be really rather unintended
and potentially quite deleterious to the UK's economy.[151]
This was echoed by other universities in written
132. Education providers were also critical that
use of the SMS would reinvent the wheel by requiring them to collect
and input data already stored on other databases. Universities
UK stated:
In particular the new sponsor management system must
be able to receive data from and have an interface with HEIs'
[Higher Education Institutions] own student record systems. HEIs
will be handling several thousand migrants each year and it is
both inefficient and insecure to expect HEIs to re-enter data
into the new Home Office system when the data is already in HEIs
own systems and could be transferred to the new Home Office database.[153]
The London School of Economics calculated the cost
of such additional work:
At LSE, based on an estimate of 6,500 annual non-EU
offers, this will amount to 1625 hours of additional work and
£160k in additional salary costs.[154]
133. Others reported that there had been limited
or no testing of the new system. The National Campaign for the
Arts was "concerned that throughout the development of the
IT systems for PBS there has been no end-user testing. We believe
such testing could have produced solutions to the difficulties
currently faced".[155]
The Association of Circus Proprietors of Great Britain stated
that "there was no opportunity to test the system by making
trial applications".[156]
134. Although the Minister for Borders and Immigration,
Phil Woolas MP, told us that he was "very aware that everyone
will be expecting a major Government-sponsored IT system to fail",[157]
UK Border Agency officials were confident in the capacity of the
Sponsorship Management System. Neil Hughes considered that, in
terms of the volume of traffic handled by the system, "the
numbers coming through are within our estimates and we filled
the pipe much bigger than it needed to be
so [we are] very
confident on volume".[158]
However, in response to the concerns of the sector, during the
course of our inquiry the UK Border Agency agreed to implement
Tier 4 in phases, and to set up a working group with the higher
education sector to advise on data management and technical design.
Matthew Coats of the UK Border Agency told us:
The way we want to introduce the rest of the system
is progressively and carefully to ensure that we reduce the risk
of any problems. We have drawn together a group of interested
parties to make sure that, as we finish the implementation of
Tier 4, everybody is involved in those decisions.[159]
135. Universities UK welcomed the slowing-down
of implementation, but re-emphasised that:
We remain concerned about a lack of time for testing
by universities by the autumn. The student route will have to
cope with large volumes of transactions in a very short period
of time so it is essential that thorough testing by universities
and UKBA takes place both in the UK and overseas.[160]
136. Employers and educators, as the sponsors
of migrants, are expected to take on greater responsibility for
migrants' compliance with immigration controls. In return for
taking on these duties, they have a right to expect a high quality
service from the UK Border Agency. In providing this high quality
service, the UK Border Agency must ensure speedy decision-making,
access to helpful and well-informed staff in the UK and overseas,
and consultation with sponsors to meet their concerns about the
design or administration of the new system.
137. There is clearly great nervousness amongst
sponsors over the possible civil and criminal penalties attached
to any failure, even unwitting, to report changes in circumstance
of their migrants. It seems odd that sponsors who have been rigorously
assessed and awarded an 'A' rating should then be subject to harsh
penalties for minor administrative oversights, especially in the
context of a wholly new system. We recommend therefore that the
Government introduces a degree of leeway for 'A' rated sponsors
within which they will not be penalised. The Government must also
make explicit to sponsors exactly how and when they can expect
penalties to be applied, in order to allay the current insecurity
felt by employers and educators.
138. We were alarmed to hear that the system
gives UK Border Agency officials wide powers of entry and inspection
on sponsors' premises. We recommend that the exercise of these
powers be limited strictly to the inspection of files and paperwork
relating to the sponsorship of migrants.
139. Given the unfortunate propensity of previous
large-scale Home Office IT systems to fail, we fully sympathise
with the nervousness felt by universities about a Sponsorship
Management System which relies entirely on a Home Office IT project.
The consequences for the reputation, functioning and finances
of UK businesses and educational establishments of any failure
of the system at peak times of the year, are potentially dramatic.
140. In this context we welcome the considered
decision of the UK Border Agency to phase implementation of the
system for the higher education sector and involve the sector
in its design. However, the Government must still ensure that
the system is thoroughly tested in the UK and abroad, and that
pilots are run with universities in advance of the implementation
date of autumn 2009, which will fall during the peak period for
university enrolment. It must also ensure that adequate back up
of the technology is in place.
141. We welcome the response of the UK Border
Agency to concerns voiced by the education sector about the speed
of implementation of the Sponsorship Management System, and its
decision to implement the system more gradually for Tier 4 to
allow for testing. However, we urge the UK Border Agency also
to ensure adequate time for piloting, testing and feedback with
users for every other aspect of the Sponsorship Management Systemthis
is vital not only to ensure that largely untried technology and
systems actually work, but also to secure the confidence of sponsors.
Home Office, A points-based system: making migration work for
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Are London art audiences more sophisticated?
People in the north of England are not sophisticated enough to appreciate major works of art, it has been claimed.
London-based art critic Brian Sewell says a new exhibition by post-war artists, due to open on Tyneside, should be on display in the capital.
"By the very nature of the audience in London it is exposed to very much more art and culture and is therefore more sophisticated. There is no doubt about it."
But Paul Collard, chairman of Northern Arts and a member of the Arts Council, said northern audiences were just as sophisticated as those in London.
"Investment in cultural facilities in the regions has stimulated an extraordinary renaissance in regional capitals like Newcastle," he said.
Are art audiences more sophisticated in London? Should the exhibition have opened in London instead?
This debate is now closed. Read a selection of your comments below.
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I miss out on a lot of great exhibitions because I'm not prepared to put up with the horrors of London to visit crowded galleries. The more art shown outside the capital the better.
Having worked in art galleries in the US and Britain, I do not find Mr Sewell's comments shocking. His remarks reflect his petty regionalism and the pretentious snobbery that infests the art industry and its hangers on. I think Mr Sewell would be better off taking time listening to what other Londoners think before taking it upon himself to disparage a large part of the country.
Mark, UK
I suspect Brian Sewell is worried that the northerners' reputation for straight talking will expose the emperor's new clothes when they come to review some of rubbish on display and posing as art. It has become very easy to tell people they are not sophisticated enough to appreciate art and the gullible southerners will accept this but not the pragmatic northerners.
While individuals such as Mr Sewell spout such nonsense, parity in arts and culture will never be achieved. His argument is entirely circular - people in London appreciate art because they have access to art and therefore all the art should be in London. How is the north (and of course the oft-forgotten Midlands) ever going to achieve Mr Sewell's level of enlightenment in everything is kept firmly in his own back yard?
To Alick, Heaven forbid I ever get Mr Sewell's "level of enlightenment" - I never want to be the level of snob he seems to be!
I have constantly attended the theatre, galleries and concerts no matter where I live and in my frank opinion it depends on what the person wants to absorb. I like Brian Sewell for the very fact that he is not afraid to speak his mind; however on this one I do have to say he is being outrageously narrow minded. How many northern artists, playwrights and musicians do we have to thank this country for? Get a grip Mr Sewell. You are smarter than that.
Us southerners are culturally spoilt for choice, and that's the way I like it. I honestly believe that people up north are far more partisan, more removed from the world and far less cosmopolitan. Therefore the south is more sophisticated. As the furore over the exhibition proves. If the north was equally sophisticated then this news story would never have emerged.
It is disappointing to hear Sewell's comments, particularly when he is supposed to be held in such high regard by the art world. It's about time the northern regions of the country had exactly the same opportunities and investment into the arts as London has enjoyed over the years.
Does Mr Sewell not realise how much of London's art scene is subsidised by travelling northern audiences? Maybe he should take the time to visit the north more often to see what is really going on in Britain's art world instead of refusing to acknowledge that London is not the centre of the universe.
This is typical of the upper class snobbery associated with art that completely turns people off. How can someone in the north be any less appreciative of art just because they do not live in London? Had this kind of comment been made about an ethnic minority this person would be on the front pages of every newspaper. Why shouldn't an art exhibition be held outside of the capital? His comment that it was unreasonable for someone to travel outside of London is pathetic.
If I were to ever meet this Mr Sewell I would be very tempted to point out that Londoners can do without thick people such as him roaming round making silly, outdated comments. I have no respect for someone like that. What a fool.
I may not know much about art, but I do know that Brian Sewell is a pompous, self-important little prig who considers his taste to be superior to everybody else's.
This is just typical of the elitist attitude of most people who live in London, who believe that anything of any value can only be appreciated in London. The very fact that Mr Sewell felt the need to make this comment probably means he is becoming concerned that the English regions are beginning to catch up with London, which obviously diminishes London's importance. Not that London has ever been deemed to be important by anyone other than those fools who choose to live there.
I don't think the London audience is any more sophisticated than the rest of the country in terms of its appreciation of art. Opening this exhibition in Newcastle is a great idea because it will generate new interest in art in the area, and perhaps remind critics that there is more to the UK than the city of London. Comments like Mr Sewell's can only further alienate people from the arts and increase the perception many people have, that art is inaccessible to them.
Mr Sewell's ill-informed bigotry does little to convince me that his opinions on art are worthwhile. That he resorts to this sort of cheap PR suggests that people in London have stopped listening to him already...
The trouble with Brian's comments is most of us are supremely indifferent to his opinion. Fortunately I do not live in London so do not really know who he is, other some rather tiresome critic. Ah me, what it is to part of the great unwashed unsophisticated north - we are allowed to go along to exhibits and just look at them without trying to make clever remarks, how enjoyable.
If Brian Sewell would be prepared to open his mind to the concept of art outside of London, he would be pleasantly surprised. After all for the "sophisticated" Londoner, a 280 mile trip (one hour on the plane from Heathrow) to see such an important exhibition should be of no consequence. His comments reek of a desperation to retain the "class" divide between north and south that only really exists in the minds of people like Mr Sewell.
It matters not whether London audiences are more sophisticated. What does matter is that art in all its forms is disseminated to as wide an audience as possible. It is not the preserve of London, nor even of the likes of Sewell. His comments are ignorant, insulting, and show that his position as an art critic is, at best, tenuous.
Art "critics" sophisticated? Certainly, in the real meaning of the word - employing sophistry - that is, using over- elaborate complication and deceit with intent to confuse.
Phil, UK
I'm sure Damien Hirst would whole-heartedly agree with those comments, having been brought up and educated in Leeds. The lack of sophistication as a result of enduring his formative years up north has clearly had such a detrimental effect on his talent. I wonder if Mr Sewell has ever ventured outside of the M25?
Mr Sewell says "By the very nature of the audience in London it is exposed to very much more art and culture and is therefore more sophisticated".
Surely, then, we poor uncultured northerners cannot be expected to become more sophisticated if we are denied the opportunity to see works of art?
Anyway, I'm sure Mr Sewell can afford the travel expenses.
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