{"id":198625,"date":"2015-11-09T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=198625"},"modified":"2015-11-09T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:37:26","slug":"uk-must-quit-fixation-past-glories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-must-quit-fixation-past-glories\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018UK must quit fixation on past glories\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A new study has strongly criticized the British politicians of obsession with what it describes as \u201csupposed past glories\u201d and has called for a change in that mindset in order to enable the country to cooperate more with the world. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study that was authored by former diplomats and leading academics accused &#8220;a foreign-policy elite&#8221; of having a &#8220;fixation&#8230; on past imperial glories&#8221; that clouded decision-making on issues such as international trade and Britain&#8217;s relationship with Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The authors, who include the former head of the parliamentary intelligence committee, the former British ambassador to Washington and the former head of MI6, urged politicians not to base Britain&#8217;s foreign policy on \u201cself-interest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A unified national interest requires a singular identity that Britain&#8217;s open, ethno-culturally diverse society should be proud to eschew,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/11\/09\/436946\/UK-must-quit-fixation-on-past-glories\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has strongly criticized the British politicians of obsession with what it describes as \u201csupposed past glories\u201d and has called for a change in that mindset in order to enable the country to cooperate more with the world. The study that was authored by former diplomats and leading academics accused &#8220;a foreign-policy elite&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}