Canada Is Not So Much A Country

Switzerland Still Has A Huge Share Of The Watch Market, All Advertised At The Airport On Illuminated Hoardings. Gosh, They Are Ugly.

British Diplomats Who Worked In Iran During The 1980 Hostage Crisis Are Deeply Upset By Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Film 'argo,' Which Suggests They Refused Shelter To The Group Who Managed To Get Out Of The U.s. Embassy.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

The Nanny Seemed To Be Extinct Until 1975, When, Like The Coelacanth, She Suddenly And Unexpectedly Reappeared In The Shape Of Margaret Thatcher.

Until Now Their Line Has Been That The Tories Are Incapable Of Doing Anything About Poverty, And Aren't Interested In Doing It In The First Place. By Contrast, Labour Says, We Are Also Incapable Of Doing Anything About Poverty, But Would Dearly Love To Do Something. If We Knew What.