This Side of the Pond - Dec. 20

If there’s one thing we Brits excel at, it’s the passive aggressive response. One could argue that pinning us down can be frustrating because we dance so delicately around every subject, but you can’t deny that, every so often, the results are worth the effort.

As was the case when a prestigious American newspaper made the mistake of suggesting it might be about to say something negative about my nation’s capital. It wasn’t an untrue something negative, and it was nice they were reaching out to the average Joe, but it still couldn’t go unanswered.

The story begins with a sobering thought: the...