Re: British vs. US politics:
I’m originally English, but I’ve been in the states now for years on end. When I first came over I had a friend originally from Bolivia - i.e. with not much room to talk - who had been watching C-SPAN’s coverage of (UK’s) Prime Minister’s Question Time, which can be very shouty, adversarial, sarcastic and smug. My friend said that he didn’t know how a government could carry on like that. It was, he said, very undignified.
I lost track of him a while ago which is a shame because I’d certainly like to collar him and say, “Who’s undignified now, Mr. My Government Just Deadlocked To The Point Of Shutdown?”
