Sometimes you get to the end of a relationship and realise you never really knew the person at all. In the dying days of the “Special Relationship”, I feel that way about America. On an interpersonal level, I do not understand its people. I will never be able to comprehend the depths of their capacity for earnestness.
This was cemented for me in a few ways this week. Most recently, the toe curling video Anne Hathaway posted of herself singing some Arsenal anthem as if it were a song on Les Miserables. She pauses to describe Declan Rice as “man of the game” before bursting back into song.
