Stephen Fry In America

Those who can trace their ancestry back to the pilgrims count themselves almost a kind of aristocracy.

great stores of endurance.

ten types of gormless arse

ometimes political correctness exists more in the furious minds of its enemies than in reality, which gets on with compromise and common sense without too much hysteria.

Every US county has its chief town and administrative headquarters, known as the County Seat

In Maine we don’t always follow the rules. We sometimes make our own. In Maine we think different.’

ritons are constantly having their worst fears confirmed about theirs. This seems to be one of the major differences between us.

Americans are constantly being surprised by their own country. Britons are constantly having their worst fears confirmed about theirs.

here is one phrase I probably heard more than any other on my travels: ‘Only in America!’

never studied economics at school and for some reason I had always thought that the ‘Bretton Woods Agreement’ was, like the Hoare–Laval pact, the product of two people, one called Bretton and one called Woods. No, the system that gave the world the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and stable exchange rates based on a decided value for gold was the result of a conference in 1944 here in Bretton Woods, attended by all the allied and non-aligned nations who knew that the post-war world would have to be reconstructed and developed within permanent and powerful institutions. The economic structure of the world since, for good and ill, has largely flowed from that momentous meeting–if structures can be said to flow.