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I normally write about events occurring here in America which may be of interest to readers back in \u2018Ol\u2019 Blighty\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what is of most interest to me are the things happening in Britain and how our American friends are \u2013 or aren\u2019t \u2013 viewing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No doubt, I have a built-in bias. I\u2019ve been a resident here for decades but I\u2019m still British and what happens in the motherland counts for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, anyone who knows me or has read these utterings will quickly detect my political bias too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, if you do vote Tory or Republican, we can still be chums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of my longest standing friends hold bizarrely different political views than me, but we are friends for bigger and more compelling reasons than simple political allegiance \u2013 school, sport, love, shared suffering \u2013 or just our remarkable collective experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally, many of the people I bump into who are fellow travellers on my twisted political journey have none of the human characteristics I value in my friends. While our politics are aligned, they are some of the people I wish to spend the least of my available free time with, or, in the words of psephologists, \u2018would want to have a pint with.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, looking for insights, opinions and observations on what is happening back in \u2018Merry Old England\u2019, I try to gather my news from a cross section of sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From afar, it seems the UK is rapidly racing towards a clear \u2018us and them\u2019 split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich, Poor. Black, White, Left, Right, Young, Old, Rural, Urban, Northern, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may disagree and think this may be me viewing affairs through my warped lens, but it may be more a result of my media consumption habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stuck on this enormous continent – where weather is the number one news story, the UK – except for the Queen, Andrew, Harry or Ricky Gervais – is at best the 10th<\/sup> or 11th<\/sup> most interesting foreign news event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have to dig a little deeper to get our fix on what\u2019s truly happening from John O\u2019 Groats to Land\u2019s End. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m still a BBC fan, though I recognise that\u2019s an unpopular position these days, being that it\u2019s the bastion of leftie, middle class, opinion. Also, as a Merseysider, I steer clear of the S*n and, by extension, don\u2019t have much truck with Murdoch\u2019s news empire and its Fox News output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to balance these bleeding-heart Liberal stances I, like every news consumer in the US, am exposed to the all-reaching power of the DailyMail.com<\/em> website, which is the number one source of UK news and content from sea to shining sea. After all it is attributed with making Amanda Holden an international star, for lord\u2019s sake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, hopefully, having explained the background to my own view, and the news landscape I am consuming, here is what we in America are seeing, hearing and – why wouldn\u2019t we – believing about the old country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up, our leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans ask me with incredulity, \u201cIs the guy with the hair really in charge?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resisting the urge to explain how money, class and vested interests really choose the leader of the Conservatives, I agree – \u201cYes, the bloke with the hair is in charge, and all the crazy stuff you are reading about is his doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while you and I are outraged by drinks parties, political interference in police matters, the fact that billions of pounds were written off for cancelled PPE contracts, the gifting of lordships, tax breaks and favoured status to those with good donor status, while national insurance and price rises are clobbering the working family – all this is just \u2018to be expected\u2019 for our American cousins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When discussing current affairs in Britain, the dishonesty and dual standards so prevalent in today\u2019s Government register little. It is how the game is played here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans long ago gave up on the idea that politics is anything other than a get-rich-quick scheme for those who know how to play the game \u2013 \u2018Hollywood for the Ugly\u2019 as they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if our elected leaders fail to inspire, what about those born to rule?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up \u2013 The Queen and her rag-tag family of ne\u2019er do wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As HRH celebrates 70 years in the top job, we all appreciate her personal commitment. But while Andrew\u2019s run in with the law, Harry\u2019s money worries and whether Wills can or can\u2019t keep it in his pants are front page news on the supermarket tabloids \u2013 the same ones which have evidence of Elvis living on the Moon<\/em> \u2013 true deference is retained for America\u2019s own royal family \u2013 The Kardashians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim K\u2019s recent break up with Kanye and her new relationship with Pete Davidson are front page news from LA to NY. Hours of analysis have been poured into whether or not he had her picture on his sideboard before she left her rapper husband and father of her two kids \u2013 this is what has America on edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, The Andrew formerly known as Prince<\/em>\u2019s recent decision to pay off his accuser to make his troubles go away hardly made the gossip columns here in America let alone the front pages, so accustomed are we to finding \u201cOut of Court\u201d settlements for the rich and famous as part of the US legal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is, Americans don\u2019t look at us Brits as anything other than a source of entertainment \u2013 We\u2019re funny, may have Hugh Grant\u2019s floppy hair and bad teeth but that\u2019s what is to be expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s kind of tough to be an Englishman in New York and beyond right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the plus side, we are warmly embraced everywhere we go. Our accents and disposition make us a favourite at and get us into parties we should have no real expectation of attending. And we are afforded way more airtime and bigger platforms than we truly deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while I can live with all these positives \u2013 it\u2019s what makes it a great place to live – it\u2019s the dawning realisation that as a nation we no longer matter which hurts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are totally delusional if we think the world\u2019s last Superpower looks at us as a serious player or cares for our views on Ukraine, Russia, China, Climate Change, Oil and Gas or any of the major issues of today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard as it is to swallow, on the World stage, we Brits are losing our clout. Like Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden and France before us, we are losing traction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that we don\u2019t matter individually. After all, we Brits are creatures of American curiosity. My American friends are gracious, they will entertain my opinions and listen politely to my alternate world view, smiling graciously at my anecdotes and stories of yore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I know I would be mistaken to think this was somehow something more than it is: They are simply being, as they were brought up to be, incredibly polite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think there is great future for us as individual commentators \u2013 heaven help us, Piers Morgan, Gordon Ramsey and others have carved a career out of it – but we shouldn\u2019t be fooled into thinking what we collectively say has any influence \u2013 we are having to get used to being seen as not particularly relevant to this part of the world anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the latest blog from the U.S. Martin Liptrot discusses how the American news channels view us 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