Andrew Sullivan has a host of awards that he gives out on occassion. He has a Derbyshire Award, named after John Derbyshire, for "right-wing hyperbole, hate-speech or manic paranoia" and I'm going to have one too, but not for the same criteria.
My Derbyshire award is for those commentators who born in Britain, decided that this country wasn't to their taste (nothing wrong with that) but then use their self-appointed status of expert on a country they don't like and put the boot in. Hence John Derbyshire's first (and I don't think last) award winner.
"The wretched inhabitants of that other English-speaking nation across the Atlantic, the one I escaped from (praise the Lord!) nineteen years ago, have three lurking fears in their lives: fear of crime; fear of their ignorant, ill-mannered, brutish and corrupt police force; and fear of terrorism. In that order, with terrorism a distant third."
Look, we know you don't like Britain, John, you've made that clear by ripping up your passport and taking US citizenship. But don't sprout off about stuff that you know nothing about.
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