British Expat Newsletter:
9 July 2003
This week: the death penalty – in India, the UK and Guantanamo.
Tourist advice
This article appeared recently in an American magazine under the headline “Advice For Tourists”. By all accounts it was taken seriously by a lot of people….
Heaven and Hell in the Big Easy
“Someone once described the experience of entering New Orleans as ‘being humped by a wet dog’. Ask an outsider about the ‘Crescent City’ and they’ll probably reel off a brochure at you: jazz, blues, Voodoo, Mardi Gras, Creole food, graveyards and Bourbon Street. Now ask a local and they’ll tell you about the heat. They’ll probably swear too.” Oliver Hennessey tells it like it really is in New Orleans…
The wise counsel of friends
“Had cameramen captured another submarine volcanic eruption – surely that was it? Only slowly did I realise that the deep blue was sky and the monolith was a skyscraper. Somehow in those moments the brain filtered out the explanatory words of the newsreader. Only when a second plane swooped like a dragonfly and exploded in flames into the World Trade Center did reality reassert itself…” Liz Butterfield writes in the aftermath of the 11 September tragedy.
US election results – the British solution
A satirical poke at the inconclusive result of the 2000 US Presidential election.
If he makes it – we’re doomed!
A selection of some of Dubya’s finest quotations prior to the 2000 US presidential election.