{"id":821,"date":"2018-05-11T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2018-05-14T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:42:56","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-7-11-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 7 \u2013 11 May"},"content":{"rendered":"Our assumptions about what is immutable are under attack.\u00a0 The very institutions that we thought were all that stood between us and anarchy are now daily being criticised for being \u2018elitist\u2019 and \u2018out of touch\u2019 and worst of all, \u2018standing in the way of progress\u2019.\u00a0 This one is particularly odd, because when asked what \u2018progress\u2019 might mean in this context, those that attack the institutions \u2013 we speak here of institutions of such radical thinking and disruption as the Supreme Court, the House of Lords, the Rule of Law; things like that \u2013 want nothing more, and nothing less, than to go back to the mythical days when apparently those very institutions ruled our lives with peace, love and understanding.\u00a0 What, as Elvis Costello asked<\/a>, is so funny \u2018bout peace, love and understanding?\u00a0 Nothing or course, but the language those that think the institutions stand in the way of progress choose to use does not normally reflect peace, or love, or understanding.\r\n\r\nSo Monday\u2019s<\/strong> announcement from the White House<\/a> that China\u2019s requirement on airlines that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau be referred to in ways that the Chinese Communist Party considers appropriate was, oh yes, you guessed \u2018Political Correctness Gone Mad\u2019.\u00a0 American airlines were not going to be cowed like that, the White House thundered.\u00a0 Political correctness is one of those irregular nouns \u2013 mine is the only way to describe something, yours is perhaps not as good a name as it might be and theirs is political correctness gone mad.\u00a0 But as is so often the case, the White House had fired the starting gun on the theme of the week that was\u2026\r\n\r\nOn cue, Tuesday<\/strong> saw the withdrawal of the US from the joint agreement with Iran regarding their nuclear programme.\u00a0 As far as President Trump was concerned, that too was political correctness, gone mad.\u00a0 He, as mad as hell, was not going to take it anymore.\u00a0 Sanctions and trade wars; front and centre.\u00a0 The banks of Europe need to get themselves into shape to help fight a trade war.\u00a0 Where to look for inspiration when it comes to fighting legacy thinking and practice?\u00a0 Ryanair, of course.\u00a0 Fat dumb and lazy \u2013 sorry, low volume, high margin, \u2018legacy-minded\u2019 banks need to look to Ryanair.\u00a0 So says Insead.<\/a>\r\n\r\nThat other hot bed of back-to-the-fantasy-past-ists \u2013 Team Brexit \u2013 were not to be outdone.\u00a0 First, there was outrage, outrage, that the European Union might impose visa requirements<\/a> on Britons.\u00a0 There are undesirables only on one side of the border, apparently.\u00a0 The solution might be \u2013 irony alert \u2013 a reciprocal agreement.\r\n\r\nBy Wednesday<\/strong> another group of rent-seekers par excellence, <\/em>Brussels Airlines\u2019 pilots, unhappy with the various holidays May holds, announced that tools are to be downed.\u00a0 Only they know what is best for the owner of their employer, and the business model being put forward is against their view of what is public policy.\u00a0 Funnily enough, on Friday <\/strong>the US Court of Appeals decided<\/a> that the US pilots could not use exactly that same argument to stop the Secretary of Transportation giving Norwegian a licence to operate.\u00a0 Market forces, or political correctness gone mad?\u00a0 You choose.\r\n\r\nWhich leaves Thursday<\/strong>.\u00a0 Never keen to share the limelight, that on-going slow-mo car crash, Brexit, went into space.\u00a0 Brussels could be putting lives at risk if the UK is shut out of the \u20ac10bn Galileo space satellite project, David Davis has warned.\u00a0 Brussels is doing that?\u00a0 Naughty Brussels.\u00a0 How dare it?\u00a0 Talk about political correctness gone mad!\r\n\r\nStill, the week ended well.\u00a0 The DoT announced a pilot programme for unmanned vehicles.\u00a0 Like their previous space roadmap, that one might have rewarded more wordsmithing.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our assumptions about what is immutable are under attack.\u00a0 The very institutions that we thought were all that stood between us and anarchy are now daily being criticised for being \u2018elitist\u2019 and \u2018out of touch\u2019 and worst of all, \u2018standing in the way of progress\u2019.\u00a0 This one is particularly odd, because when asked what \u2018progress\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-services-agreements","category-air-traffic-management","category-airlines","category-airports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}