Tag/category: america
Rosamund Zander missed a possibility this morning
Not for the first time, Stephen Fry made an observation recently that has echoed through my activities of the following week. In Jonathan Ross’ comeback show he observed a (generalised) difference between Americans and English, the optimisim of one versus the defeatism of the latter. Indeed, as I recall Kate Fox writing in Watching the English, there’s an Eeyorishness about …
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America is not the world (but it kind of is)
“The land of the free, they said, And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way. But where the president, is never black, female or gay, and until that day, you’ve got nothing to say” America is not the World, Morrisey Radio 4′s Today programe – thank you for introducing me to an entirely new experience: waking to the …
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