Next to the Japanese, I find the Brits are extreme social conformists. They can avoid the truth, even if it is staring them straight in face, simply because everyone else is ignoring it too.
The conformity these days tends strongly to the left, but the old habit has not left the English character.
One does wonder what they were up to.
One of them just recently got a top job at the New York Times.
I didn’t know previously that Steyn was such a good writer.