Canada Is Not So Much A Country

If You Read The 'daily Mail,' You Would Imagine That The British Middle Classes Lead Lives Of Unremitting Misery.

America Loves The Representation Of Its Heroes To Be Not Just Larger Than Life, But Stupendously, Awesomely Bigger Than Anything Else. If Blue Whales Built Statues To Each Other They'd Be Smaller Then These.

The Chinese Do Make Vast Quantities Of Wine For Home Consumption, But You Wouldn't Want To Drink It Yourself.

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Remember How Margaret Thatcher Came To Believe That Abroad Was More Important Than At Home? Didn't Do Her Much Good.