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OPINION - How I learned to stop worrying and love Great Britain — thanks to Japan's Ambassador Suzuki

Hiroshi Suzuki - Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom - (Hiroshi Suzuki /X)

I am normally a deeply unpatriotic person. Bitching about Great Britain is a favourite pastime of mine, and there’s so much good material.

The trains are always late and expensive. Housing is a mouldering joke, particularly here in London. The politicians are at best embarrassing and at worst evil. The people can be rude and cruel, if the vocal minority screaming about immigrants and queer people are anything to go by. And, it’s not a popular opinion but, to the rest of the world, historically we have very much been the baddie.

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