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An outsider's take on all the things that make America unique - from the point of view of a British expat. Covering politics, style, religion, food, language, and anything else that takes my fancy.
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Obama: politician, author, comedian
Seriously, I know that obviously he didn’t write this himself, but this is comedy gold: Hard to pick a favourite line, but the one about Dick Cheney’s memoirs (How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People) comes pretty high up the list. O...
At the baseball, no culture shock at all. Almost
This week, we went to see the New York Yankees play, er, no wait it’s coming to me, the Tampa Bay… Rays. Anyway, off we go on the B train all the way up the enormous new stadium in the Bronx, and here’s me expecting to find tons of ...
John Humphrys, I miss you!
There are many excellent reasons to live in America. There are also many uniquely British things you come to miss. Like intelligent, serious news, that occasionally deigns to present, say, the Palestinian’s point of view. Or maybe anything that...
Clouds moving in
While the UK gets itself all aflutter over the arrival of Google’s Street View, over on this side of the pond, that kind of surveillance is pretty near enshrined in the Constitution. America being the land of the pioneer, they are hugely enthus...
