Britain and America Are Neck-and-Neck in a Race to the Bottom

Oscar Wilde in an 1887 short story called The Canterville Ghost: “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”

If you read Bloomberg Opinion this week, however, you might feel that the Mother Country and its former colony are ending their 250-year separation. 

The points of convergence, unfortunately, are: soaring debt, bad health, poor education, ineffective government and, to borrow another cliché (from Dean Acheson), an inability to find a role in the world.

Tobin Harshaw Bloomberg 22 september 2024  

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-22/uk-and-us-debt-education-and-health-are-in-a-race-to-the-bottom