England

Infantile? Patronising? Misused frequently by Americans? To all three, a definitive yes. Dear friends and fellow countrymen, Early last fall, I was a member of a group What’s App chat — which people in Europe and England seem to use without abandon — and was asked my recommendation for food to consume during a long walk, aka hike, through Wales. …

In 70 years, the empire has watched a beloved female leader grow up — and grow Dear friends and fellow countrymen, The closest the United States ever came to having a female head-of-state came in 2016, when Hillary Clinton — a figure in the “kingdom” of Washington, DC for nearly 30 years at that point — won the Presidential popular election, but lost the electoral college…

Peter W. M. Blayney, The Printing and the Printers of the Book of Common Prayer 1549–1561 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), ISBN 9781108837415, hardcover, 253 pages, illustrated, £29.99, US$39.99. Ebook available. Books about printing occupy their own shelf in the very wide field of books about books. Books about liturgical printing…

Americans think we speak the same language as the English. We don’t. Dear friends and fellow countrymen, We had toyed with the notion, my English girlfriend and I, every now and again, of pulling stakes and moving to her native country. Some day. One of these years. But while I had been living in New York for 20 years and had grown…

Boston’s Bell in Hand made zero sense. London tops it. Dear friends and fellow countrymen, By now you and all of England have finished your New Year’s Eve binges, suffered through the hangover and are well into “dry January”, which could possibly last through the NFL playoffs, but doubtfully endure the SuperBowl on 15 February. If you’ve made it to…