This is an interesting article in todays Times about the perceptions of a US
author of Britain:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...670806,00.html

Following up to Rob

    >This is an interesting article in todays Times about the perceptions of a US
    >author of Britain:
    >http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...670806,00.html


    >......Don’t misunderstand: I love Britain and I love the British — and I love them just
    >the way they are: blunt, expressive, emotional, highly sexed, indifferent to rules and
    >protocol. I love their informality of dress and their preoccupation with good food and
    >fine wine. I only wish the British would overcome their prejudices and learn to value
    >Americans as they are: polite, formal, stiff upper-lipped, sexually restrained,
    >and imbued with the idealistic spirit of reform.

they seem to have spotted Hugh Grant isnt typical

    >.... Or are you too angry at your own history to forgive us for continuing to live it?

    >David Frum, a former speechwriter to President Bush, is author of The Right Man:
    >The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush.

Hmmm, so the Bush camp hope to placate us with the US carrying on the
traditions of the British Empire after such ideas are past ther sell
by date?









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