Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

If you sit on an airplane and you tell the English person sitting next to you that you have a bomb in your bag, they would probably be pissed off. Not as much pissed off as if you were talking to them all the time during the journey, but still, quite pissed off.

English people are always surprised I'm English.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception they know and they are sure about in the whole world is Marmite. ‘Love it or hate it.’ There are no other options; there is no space for grey space.