Reply #17: This is the best post I've seen in ages. [View All]

And sums up perfectly my own feelings. Perhaps in some small part because I lived in Britain from 2001 - 2005, I share much of your reaction and political conclusions. I especially appreciate the Shakespearean analogies, although you do run the danger of furthering the stereotype that all Brits are of superior fluency with regards to canonical literary references.

Also, as a side note, I had the great pleasure of meeting Tony Benn in 2003, as an events manager for the now-defunct (gobbled up by Waterstone's) bookseller Ottakar's. He was lovely, and when he found out that I was Texas repeated to me a joke he'd told once at a banquet in Houston: "We Brits and Texans have one thing in common, for sure: we both have fairly good relationships with the United States of America." He was lovely.

Thank you for this post.