Shock as the New York Times praises Britain

Ah, the New York Times. For years now, the world’s worst newspaper has painted a grim picture of Britain as a quasi-dictatorial kingdom. It’s a country drowning in ‘imperial nostalgia’, where locals huddle round bin fires on the streets of the great metropolis, gnawing on legs of mutton and cavorting in swamps. Our late Queen ‘helped obscure a bloody history of decolonisation’; our judicial system is racist for daring to lock up slave masters. So deranged is the newspaper that it even hired a former Russia Today contributor to sneer that Britain is ‘a nation falling apart at the seams.’ Who on earth would ever want to live here?

Well, it turns out, er, the New York Times actually does. For the ‘Gray Lady’ has just published its list of the best ’52 places to travel in 2023.’ And guess which city comes top of that list? London, with the NYT declaring that the great metropolis is ‘a buzzing city ready for a Coronation.’