Yes, Britain Is a Talented Nation! ; Just When It Seems We Lead the World Only in Binge-Drinking, Sporting Humiliation and Drug Abuse, Along Come the Determined, Modest and Cheerful Eccentrics Who Prove That . . .

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LET'S be honest, it's not a great time to be British, is it?

After centuries of global dominance, the country that once ran a mighty Empire that covered the planet like a giant sasquatch footprint on a small snowy path has become a laughing stock.

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Yes, Britain Is a Talented Nation! ; Just When It Seems We Lead the World Only in Binge-Drinking, Sporting Humiliation and Drug Abuse, Along Come the Determined, Modest and Cheerful Eccentrics Who Prove That . . .

We've gone from being the best at everything to the worst. Whether it's teenage pregnancy, binge-drinking, drug abuse, illegal immigration, gambling, homelessness, foreign policy or sport we lead the way in being utterly, embarrassingly useless at the moment.

It's got so bad that if you tell a foreigner you're from Britain, they either look horrified or just put their arm around you and say: 'I'm so sorry...' Part of the problem has, of course, been the increasingly farcical endgame to the Blair administration.

The spectacle of our discredited leader charging around the world trying desperately to find a legacy that doesn't involve the word 'Iraq' is as demeaning as it is laughable. ...

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