Ever since Britain had the temerity to vote for six years ago, The , America's most prestigious newspaper, has had it in for us.Numerous articles — many given front-page billing — regularly depict Britain as a plague-ridden, poverty-stricken hellhole in terminal decline. Sometimes the abuse is so over the top that the only sensible response is to laugh out loud.For example, according to the paper, it's only recently that we stopped existing almost entirely on a diet of 'legs of mutton' and 'bowls of porridge'. Apparently, we still huddle round bin fires to keep warm in winter. And during the summer of 2020 it reported we spent the brief heatwave 'cavorting' in 'swamps'.
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