Friday, May 11, 2007

It's all going to the dogs ...

I know it is only one of those hackneyed 'what foreigners think of us' pieces, but I liked this observation by Tim Dowling:

Despite its comparative cosiness, Britain has an unshakable view of itself as a nation that is forever falling to pieces. If you watch the television you see a crumbling health service, falling educational standards, rampant gun crime, infrastructural chaos, economic meltdown and a fractured civilisation well beyond repair. Look out the window, and you see someone throwing a stick for a dog. This might not seem like such a great advertisement for a country, unless you have lived some place where it's the other way round.

We are lucky in many ways. Shame about the weather.

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