Well, on the subject of the monarchy, Miss Piggy has been a diligent and effective guardian of the constitution for a goodly number of years - which is more than one can say of many of our politicians and indeed more than one can say for many US politicians with the highly politicised shenanigans about the appointment of judges to SCOTUS. And although Big Ears can be a bit of a twerp, some of his favourite topics are good ones - human scale architecture - global warming (although he looks a tit when he takes a helicopter 68 miles to play polo) - the malign influence of vulgar money in historic settings. Anybody who drives a Lagonda cannot be all bad!

Oh, and on the subject of racial discrimination, yes, there is systemic racism still here in the UK - but much less than I saw on business trips to the USA when I was still seriously copyright lawyering. No black faces apart from parking valets and chambermaids. Non-whites (bad expression but useful) are underrepresented here in positions of influence, and some of those in positions of influence are not good ambassadors for the UK communities descended from their progenitors, but I've been spending a lot of time over the last two years (gosh, is it that long?) maybe on average two days a week, in places and with friends where I am the only or nearly the only oyinbo and it gives me a chance to compare what I see with what is felt, and I'd be pretty confident that it is petty racism here that irks - not the risk of death. It is the over-representation of BME people in prison - but to only about half the extent of the USA. It is the over-reaction of authority to assertiveness - I get away with being quite stroppy, but my G/F gets an adverse reaction from authority unless she is careful (careful to an extent that can frustrate me) - but she does not get arrested on trumped up charges nor does she get shot.

I've heard young Afrikans in the social circle of my friends saying "Road man will get him" - but it hasn't happened yet, and although I still can't dance I've happily been referred to as "this black white man" for my enjoyment of many types of music.

I think that apart from in the worlds of UKRAP and Duvid Scumeron the UK is making progress.

But back to the home of the brave and land of the free (which is neither).

You have widespread racism about POTUS. You have primitive religion. There's some of that in the UK but not all that much. You have some Afrikan plutocrats represented in the Republican party, but how many African-Americans and Asian-Americans have you got in the senate and congress (and would you like to take Keith Vaz and Priti Patel and Baroness Warsi please?)

Yes. I think that despite the UK's abysmal colonial record (but bear in mind that Benin was the centre of an African slave trade before the UK destroyed that country) and despite the eventual failure of our attempt to conquer Ireland (started in the 1300s-ish) we have not practised systematic torture since the abolition of the process called "peine forte et dure", we have since before WWII been generally (apart from Korea) reducing, not increasing our wars of attempted conquest (sorry Iraq, sorry Libya - but the USA was more to blame there than we were). We provide more support for Palestine from Israeli oppression. Yes. I think some moral superiority is justified.