Americans don’t care about Britain
From the vast American planet, we are a distant satellite
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Freddie Hayward
Freddie Hayward is the US correspondent at the New Statesman. He started out at the Bangkok Post, as what Hunter S Thompson once called a vagrant journalist. Stints in Sierra Leone and Westminster followed before he ended up in the imperial capital, Washington DC.
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