Proud to be British?
Nov 20th 2011, 9:22 pm
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Re: Proud to be British?
I would have loved to see "W" have to answer questions like that, just once. He'd have been crucified.
The coverage of politics and current affairs in the UK media can be fantastic. I love "This Week" - the host Andrew Neill has an ascerbic wit, and it's great to see politicians like Michael Portillo able to have a little argy-bargy in an intellectually stimulating discussion, and to see them recognise quite objectively the good points of their opponents. In comparison, most US politicians look like half-wits.
Here's the Web site for This Week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ek/default.stm
The coverage of politics and current affairs in the UK media can be fantastic. I love "This Week" - the host Andrew Neill has an ascerbic wit, and it's great to see politicians like Michael Portillo able to have a little argy-bargy in an intellectually stimulating discussion, and to see them recognise quite objectively the good points of their opponents. In comparison, most US politicians look like half-wits.
Here's the Web site for This Week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ek/default.stm
Nov 21st 2011, 1:21 am
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Re: Proud to be British?
I am proud to be British for many many reasons, some really simple but mostly for the sciences....... all really came to the fore in the UK........
Someone mentioned Churchill? I'll call your Churchill and raise you a
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Nov 21st 2011, 1:44 am
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Re: Proud to be British?
No match for...
Chapman
Cleese
Idle
Jones
Palin
Atkinson
Rhys Jones
Smith
Fry
Laurie
Barker
Corbett
Milligan
Cooper
French
Saunders
Mayall
Edmondson
Morcambe
Wise
Henry
Hill
Whitehouse
Enfield
Skinner
Sayle
Gervais
Reeves
Mortimer
Walliams
Lucas
Coogan
Bailey
Evans
James
Pegg
Frost
Baron Cohen
Morris
I'll even go with...
Brand
Chapman
Cleese
Idle
Jones
Palin
Atkinson
Rhys Jones
Smith
Fry
Laurie
Barker
Corbett
Milligan
Cooper
French
Saunders
Mayall
Edmondson
Morcambe
Wise
Henry
Hill
Whitehouse
Enfield
Skinner
Sayle
Gervais
Reeves
Mortimer
Walliams
Lucas
Coogan
Bailey
Evans
James
Pegg
Frost
Baron Cohen
Morris
I'll even go with...
Brand
Nov 21st 2011, 2:00 am
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Re: Proud to be British?
Or the Americans who are really Brit Expats.
Charlie Chaplin
Stan Laurel
Bob Hope
Cary Grant
And a few others
Charlie Chaplin
Stan Laurel
Bob Hope
Cary Grant
And a few others
Nov 21st 2011, 2:08 am
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Re: Proud to be British?
I like what everyone has sad so far but I have to add my two pence. I would have to say what makes me proud to be British is the BBC. Yes I know that a lot of people on BE hate the BBC with a passion but I think that the BBC has made some great shows over the years and they is nothing quite like it any where in the world in my opinion. The varied and beautiful countryside.. The small and beautiful villages. Something that the Americans (America is the greatest nation on earth if you ask a lot of Americans) never got off the ground the SST. I am of course talking about Concorde with the British did with the France. This is old school but do not laugh at me I would also say Test Card F. Test Card Music. Pages from CEEFAX. PMQs, F1, the great scientists that Britain has produced over the centuries, London, The Yorkshire Dales, the books by James Herriot, the NHS, the History that Britain has and I could go on and on but I will stop now. 
Nov 21st 2011, 2:14 am
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Re: Proud to be British?
And I was thinking about saying Bob Hope but he would say when he was alive that he was American not British and he renounced his British Citizenship so he is not British so I did not include him.
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Nov 21st 2011, 2:18 am
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Nov 21st 2011, 2:20 am
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Nov 21st 2011, 10:44 am
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Re: Proud to be British?
Chaucer
Wycliff-various spellings
Thomas Wyatt Snr
Wycliff-various spellings
Thomas Wyatt Snr
Nov 21st 2011, 12:44 pm
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Re: Proud to be British?
T.S. Eliot
Terry Gilliam
Bill Bryson
Thomas Hutchinson
Terry Gilliam
Bill Bryson
Thomas Hutchinson