The American Expatriate: Is it just me?

THE AMERICAN ^REEXPATRIATE

"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb, in a remarkably frank admission of his role in misinforming the British public about America and Americans

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Is it just me?

Does anyone else find it at least marginally distasteful that the base of the dome on St. Paul's Cathedral has been festooned with an advertisement for the Make Poverty History campaign?

It's not the fact that it is promoting what is essentially a political lobby. Involving itself in politics is hardly unknown to the Church of England. But it strikes me as at least a little bit undignified to take one of the most important historical landmarks in all of Britain, which famously survived even the blitz with its structural integrity intact, and turn it into billboard.