La Britannia prima della separazione

A boy jumps over a row of lavender in a field in Carshalton, south London, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
People are seen through windows as they work in a office building on the south bank of the River Thames, next door to City Hall,  in central London, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A school boy offers a crisp to a friend as they sit in Trafalgar Square, London, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
People are silhouetted against the sky from the setting sun on Parliament Hill in Hampstead Heath, London, Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Workers clean the side of the One Churchill Place skyscraper, of which 32 floors serve as the headquarters of Barclays Bank, in the Canary Wharf business district of London, Friday, May 6, 2011.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A police vehicle's headlights are seen as people are silhouetted in the fading light as the moon peers through the trees during unseasonal hot weather on Hampstead Heath in London, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.  Britain experienced the hottest October day on record Saturday, with the national weather service the Met Office saying the temperature reached 85.8 F (29.9 C) at Gravesend in southeast England.  That is the highest October temperature since records began a century ago, beating the previous high of 84.9 F (29.4 C) reached on Oct. 4, 1985.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A couple embrace on a bridge over a canal in Camden Lock, North London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.(AP Photo/John R Moore)
People walk across Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Clouds cover the top of the Shard skyscraper on a rainy day in London, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012.  The Shard was officially opened in July and stands at 310 meters (1,016 ft) high, making it the tallest building in western Europe.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A man advertises a golf sale on Regent Street in London, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A view of St. Paul's Cathedral in central London, from within a shopping centre, Thursday, June 5, 2014.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
People on the London Eye look at London landmark  Big Ben during a a bright  September morning in London, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Tourists watch soap bubbles along the Thames river, London, backdropped by St. Paul's Cathedral, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
A seagull flies on the south bank of the River Thames, across the river from the Palace of Westminster, and the Elizabeth Tower which contains the ball known as Big Ben, as the sun sets in London, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Mute swans and Canadian Geese glide on the mist shrouded Round Pond near Kensington Palace, just after sunrise in London, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
People take part in early morning exercise in 'the Scoop' an outdoor amphitheater near City Hall by the River Thames in London, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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A ferris wheel turns next to the harbor in Torquay on the south coast of England, on Saturday, July 21, 2018. AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Rough seas are buffeted against Tynemouth Pier, as the sun rises in Tynemouth, England, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)
A sheep on London Bridge before being driven across by 600 Freemen of the City of London, London, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019. The drive is a British tradition dating back hundreds of years and will see more than 600 Freemen of the City of London take up their historic entitlement to drive their sheep over what was once London's only river crossing. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)

Nelle foto Ap uno sguardo insolito e stupito nella vita di un giorno in Gran Bretagna. Meta facilmente raggiungibile e conosciuta dal turismo di massa dei voli low cost. Si coglie, tuttavia qualcosa di intangibile in questa cultura che porta dentro di sé il rapporto ancestrale con la terra, e la corona, e la propensione esterna, fino alle punte estreme dell’esercizio di un impero mondiale.  Scade a fine di questo mese di ottobre 2019 il termine per definire la separazione con l’Unione europea. Un fatto che alcuni sperano di poter scongiurare ma che avrà conseguenze difficilmente immaginabili per l’equilibrio geopolitico. Non solo in Occidente

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