...While England is Royally Screwed

摘要

Nearly a third of the world's population will watch Prince William marry Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey on April 29, or so reports in the British press predicting a television audience of more than 2 billion would have us believe. The souvenir tea towels have been printed, the mugs glazed, and a national holiday declared. For a whole day, Britain will play the game the world loves us for: royal Lilliput. Could this be the biggest role left to us? "Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be," Muammar Gaddafi said recently in one of his rants, and though this was in one way a speech too soon (a few of the missiles that hit Libya were British), there are many in Britain who would forgive the colonel his analysis.