Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.