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...Britain, where reality has ruled Britannia's (air)waves for years, TV writers are starting to learn from reality's success. The sitcom The Office uses reality-TV techniques (jerky, handheld camera work, "confessional" interviews) to explore the petty politics of white-collar workers. Now airing on BBC America, it's the best comedy to debut here this season, because its characters are the kind of hard-to-pigeonhole folks you find in life--or on reality TV. On Survivor and The Amazing Race, the gay men don't drop Judy Garland references in every scene. MTV's Making...
...even proposes that Britain altruistically sacrificed her empire in World War II to stop the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians from keeping theirs. "Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?" he asks. Evidently he expects a yes. Ferguson's rendition of the Rule Britannia riff is sure to rouse a few roars from the old lions. When, last November, Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw mildly ventured that "a lot of the problems that we are having to deal with now are a consequence of our colonial past," right-wing commentators and historians lined...
...wars of increasing devastation until competition between nations destroyed the continent in two world wars. The respective “Warring States” periods of China and Japan furnish more lessons, the gist of which is summarized in their names. Contrast these worlds with Pax Romana, Pax Britannia and now, Pax Americana. That war between major states today is unthinkable does not prove that the nature of international relations has fundamentally changed, only that the United States has more military power than any conceivable combination of hostile countries. So greatly does the United States outdistance the competition in military...
...that could not be substantiated. There is also a claim that his aides sold gifts Charles disliked, reportedly to the tune of $150,000 a year, and took a cut of the proceeds. Thrown in for good measure is a tale of a gay orgy aboard the royal yacht Britannia and gay sex between an undisclosed member of the royal family and a servant. All the careful p.r. work that had burnished the monarchy's image in this 50th year of the Queen's reign dissolved in a chorus of public amazement and anger. Charles ordered an inquiry into...
...only proper that she should come out to support Bond: after all, he has been in Her Majesty's public service for 40 years (50 if you count the books) as a stalwart of the British film industry and global ambassador of British cool--even before Cool Britannia existed...