In Defense of Anglophilia
Posted: May 15th, 2010 | Author: Maha Rafi Atal | Filed under: Britain, Culture, Journalism, Politics, Technology | Tags: Afghanistan, David Cameron, European Union, Gordon Brown, Iran, Labour, Tory, UK elections | 1 Comment »Regular readers of this blog, as well as followers of my Twitter and Reader feeds, will know that for many months, I have been obsessed by the British general election. Earlier this week, my friend and True/Slant blogger Ethan Epstein chastised American journalists for over-hyping this story at the expense of more significant elections, like the August ouster of the Liberal Democrats in Japan.