Britain and the Continent cut off!
The cloud of ash from Iceland has provided us with an immediate reminder of the degree to which we are now a globalised community. Although nothing of any significance has been affected within Ireland, suddenly all schedules and arrangements have been thrown into complete chaos: colleagues cannot travel to attend meetings and other engagements, international visitors here to assist us in various ways are suddenly our guests and protégés as they find they are unable to return, urgent parcels and mailings don’t arrive or cannot leave; and all of this is aggravated by our not knowing how long it will last. I have personally had to make radical changes to my schedules for next week.
We are a global community depending on each other. It is hard to see how we could return to the self-contained units we once were. But this week’s events have shown us how fragile all of that is.
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April 16, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Its just the Icelandic gods revenge on the Brits for Gordon Brown using anti-terror laws to freeze Landsbanki’s UK assets. Oh yeah & the cod war too.
April 16, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Surely Bjork was sufficient revenge.
April 16, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Nah,that was just sadism
April 16, 2010 at 6:47 pm
love the title…i take it you are referring to the classic “Fog in Channel, Continent Cut off” headline….
April 16, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Indeed. I would have liked to have written ‘America cut off’, but the drift of the ashes didn’t facilitate that… 🙂