Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.
And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.
Tag: history united-states international-relations irish television ireland scotland paranoia americans eavesdropping scots wales uk-us-relations britons accents anti-british-sentiment braveheart princess-diana united-kingdom
This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime ministership. In the succeeding five years, Labor inaugurated the National Health Service, the first and boldest experiment in socialized medicine. It took into public ownership all the vital (and bankrupted) utilities of the coal, gas, electricity and railway industries. It even nibbled at the fiefdoms and baronies of private steel, air transport and trucking. It negotiated the long overdue independence of India. It did all this, in a country bled white by the World War and subject to all manner of unpopular rationing and controls, without losing a single midterm by-election (a standard not equaled by any government of any party since). And it was returned to office at the end of a crowded term.
Christopher HitchensTag: patriotism elections world-war-ii britain india united-kingdom winston-churchill british-people clement-attlee indian-independence-act-1947 indian-independence-movement labour-party-uk national-health-service prime-minister-of-the-uk rationing-in-the-united-kingdom socialised-medicine toyrism uk-general-election-1945 welfare-state
Tag: secrecy government united-kingdom newspeak privy-council privy-council-of-the-uk
Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.
Christopher HitchensTag: politics united-states oscar-wilde england the-importance-of-being-earnest confrontation united-kingdom margaret-thatcher ronald-reagan social-class political-radicalism social-structure-of-the-uk
Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.
Conor Cruise O'BrienTag: hard-times charles-dickens united-nations martin-chuzzlewit united-kingdom gradgrind harold-macmillan state-of-katanga
Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
Andy ZaltzmanTag: similes twitter united-kingdom 2011 ed-miliband news-international-phone-hacking
Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring,
Andy ZaltzmanTag: politics britain twitter united-kingdom tories 2011 news-international-phone-hacking
The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything.
Charles MooreTag: politics wealth freedom democracy capitalism economics media banks labour united-kingdom 2011 economic-inequality social-class rupert-murdoch
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
Nick CohenTag: politics activism religion oppression journalism islam bigotry theocracy london arabs britain leftism islamism united-kingdom right-wing-politics religious-fundamentalism islamophobia reactionary
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
Johann HariTag: patriotism monarchy republicanism united-kingdom monarchy-of-the-uk
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