While I was living in London, I wrote that one way to tell the class of a neighborhood was to count the children playing outside. Well, it seems you can also count the birds. A recent study found that the population of birds in urban areas of Britain is directly related to the wealth [...]
Squalid Britain
Squalid Britain
Yummy Mummy…
One of the most amusing things about living in the UK are the subtle differences in phraseology that make it, in certain situation, impossible for Britons and Yanks to understand each other.
Case in point; I was completely confused to hear two men down the pub talking about “yummy mummy”. It took several eavesdropping minutes for [...]
The Brain Of A Briton
The Brain Of A Briton
The Next 30 Years Of War In Britain
The Next 30 Years Of War In Britain
Guns, Violence & Politics
Over at 2 Crabs, my fellow American expats, no doubt as impressed as I am with the relative lack of crime here in the sceptred isles, have in the wake of the VT shootings, put up some Gun Violence Statistics. Without going into the actual sources of the statistics (The Brady Campaign can hardly be [...]
Toryspotting
Toryspotting
Grow Your Own Viagra
Grow Your Own Viagra
Thirteen Things I Thought I Knew About England
Edition #32. Last week I wrote about things that I had discovered that the British (at least in London and Essex) had misunderstood about America.
This week, in the spirit of fairness, I turn the tables and look at thirteen of my own misconceptions about Britain and the Britons. Now that I have been disabused [...]
Britian For Americans
Britian For Americans
Welcome To The Fattest Place In Europe
This comes as no suprise to me, but I am sure that all over Britian, little indignant gasps and “tut tut”s are being heard as the weeble-wobble people of Europe discover that with respect to girth at least, they might as well be Americans.
I find it particularly amusing because the British are, to borrow their [...]
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