If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

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Italy and Germany as unified states are more recent (1870/71), but had long histories nonetheless, a culture, good and bad. The modern sophists could baldly go even further in assuming that there is no god but God and the BBC is the only righteous messenger of God.

And if the world falls apart, one can count on the BBC and their reporters to do an excellent job reporting on it. There were some really interesting facts in here, and I particularly enjoyed Sopel’s personal insights into his first hand experiences of presidents and US political coverage (although it needed more of these). As a member of the White House Press Corps, he has accompanied both President Obama and President Trump on Air Force One and interviewed President Obama at the White House. To be fair, his target audience is his fellow Brits (I bought the book in the UK) so if they’ve never been to America, they wouldn’t be able to quibble over his overgeneralizations.It goes off on the same tangent about travel bans, and reiterates the Syria narrative about chemical weapons. Although this would be a good read, I have to say that Sopel was good company, reading his own work, during my weekly commute. He is amusing and insightful, as well as, in good British tradition, self denigrating about Trump’s snub to him, and the BBC, during a press conference. And then of course we are inundated with American culture, from their food to their films, music, fashions – you name it.

The author goes to some lengths to demonstrate how much more religious Americans are than any other Western country. The media detached public from racial segregation in quite a funny way: virtually took people back into 1957 when some black students were illegally banned from attending class at Little Rock High School. In other words, that is the checked amount paid by one of the puppeteers (who plays, let’s say white) for putting his protégé into the chair; for the possibility to enjoy food and drinks on the “Board number one”.He isn’t necessarily saying one culture/country does something better than the other, although he is bemused (and horrified) by the importance that religion and guns play in American society and politics (he isn’t the only one).