Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and national stereotyping

Is that a whiff of journalistic, sanctimonious, superiority I smell, once again, floating in the autumn air?

First The Economist, now the BBC:
Sometimes I play this game when arriving in a strange town on my European travels: if I were plonked down here, could I guess where I was? In an increasingly globalised, homogenous world it should be tricky.

So, for Mark Mardell, what do you think are the giveaway signs that he’s in Southern England...go on,you’ll never guess.

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