“The fact is,” Bill Bryson said, “Britain is still the best place in the world for most things – to post a letter, go for a walk, watch television, buy a book, venture out for a drink, go to a museum, get lost, seek help, or stand on a hillside and take in the view”.
Fair play to you Bill but you neglected a few other choice articles. For example, few people in any civilised society would tolerate, let alone promote, the existence of Jordan and Peter Andre and no-one but no-one would proudly display their national flag with the name of the country inscribed upon it (actually that one is exclusively the cry of a few demented English).
He also, one would assume completely purposefully, neglected to praise how we as The British ‘make movies’. That would, more than likely, be down to the phrase, ‘the best place in the world’, for as patriotic as you may be, it’d be a foolhardy cineaste who believes this little Isle produces the best films in the entire world. And besides, even if we were, no true British person is that arrogant.
But every now and again we have a bloody good try and so, in honour of Time Out’s exhaustive compilation, available here (http://www.timeout.com/london/bestbritishfilms/) I decided to throw in my two pennies. Hope you do the same.
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