{"id":72948,"date":"2026-05-02T06:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-uk-and-us-are-boorish-in-their-own-ways-but-i-often-wish-i-were-british-dave-schilling\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:58:38","slug":"the-uk-and-us-are-boorish-in-their-own-ways-but-i-often-wish-i-were-british-dave-schilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-uk-and-us-are-boorish-in-their-own-ways-but-i-often-wish-i-were-british-dave-schilling\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK and US are boorish in their own ways. But I often wish I were British | Dave Schilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The king\u2019s US visit reminds me how glorious it would be to live in a country where sunshine is a novelty and For the Love of Dogs is on TV<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cspecial relationship\u201d between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK alliance is a geopolitical version of a slowly disintegrating celebrity relationship where neither side wants to admit it\u2019s actually over, so someone has to do a crazy thing like cheating in the most high-profile manner possible to wrap things up. Like Klay Thompson (allegedly) stepping out on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/megan-thee-stallion-seemingly-claims-klay-thompson-cheated-on-her-ends-relationship-11958834\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>, America has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1l25qd43nro\">making goo-goo eyes at Israel<\/a> for the last year, and King Charles is starting to get jealous.<\/p>\n<p>So the king popped into the White House for a tour of all the changes Donald and Melania have foisted upon the grounds. <em>Have you seen the gaping hole where the East Wing used to be? And what a hole it is. To your left, you\u2019ll see the beehive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/02\/king-charles-visit-american-british\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king\u2019s US visit reminds me how glorious it would be to live in a country where sunshine is a novelty and For the Love of Dogs is on TV The so-called \u201cspecial relationship\u201d between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK alliance is a &#8230; <a title=\"The UK and US are boorish in their own ways. But I often wish I were British | Dave Schilling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-uk-and-us-are-boorish-in-their-own-ways-but-i-often-wish-i-were-british-dave-schilling\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The UK and US are boorish in their own ways. But I often wish I were British | Dave Schilling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}