In the spirit of free speech, I suppose we have to allow other countries to express their concerns about life in Britain, even though it’s none of their business and is diplomatic bad manners.
However, it is impudent of the Trump administration, currently engaged in dismantling the constitution of the United States, to issue a patronising school report on the state of human rights in the United Kingdom. Every so often, the Americans, whose system of laws owes much to the British, like to tell us we’re no longer a free people. “Sod off” is the instinctive and succinct British reaction to such treatment, but I shall endeavour to elaborate.
