--Your obsessive urge to defend every shitty thing Britain has ever done makes you one strange individual.
Jim Carroll--
,..,
Find myself rather oddly reacting, Jim, to your apparent obsessive hatred of your own country. To hear you tell it, you appear to think that "shitty things" are all Britain has ever done. I appreciate that much of what you write is responding to other people's points, the exigencies of argument making you emphasise certain aspects to the detriment of the whole picture. But with all due respect, I find it peculiarly off-putting. Reminds me of Koko's Little List in The Mikado, which included

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own

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