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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While the BBC news reporting historically was good, for the past few decades their coverage of US-related news events has displayed a shocking ignorance of the US Constitution, division of powers (Executive, Legislative, Judicial branches, but also not understanding that the US is decentralized with different states making different policy choirs).

Many in the UK, for example, assume incorrectly that a US President has the same powers/authority as a UK Prime Minister.  [/quote]

I lived in Britain for a long time and agree with this observation. UK media can be obsessed with American politics and American issues but simultaneously ignorant of the Constitution and balance of powers in the US, persistently and stubbornly after all these decades. There's also ongoing controversy over the growing loss of impartiality, especially in BBC, and I find the Times of London a better news source these days. BBC pretty much just repeats what NYT says without questioning it. Guardian is much worse, it is the epitome of patronizing sneering progressivism.

Anti-Americanism among university administrators and faculty is nothing new, despite the same people also being heavily influenced by American cultural topics and recently the social justice movements, which is also another hot topic of controversy in the UK because the British experience is quite different from the American experience and there's definitely resentment that left wing faculty and admin are copying American woke causes and beliefs.

As for St. A, period or not, it's a well regarded university made somewhat more famous by Prince William. Ranking it as the equivalent of the American Duke or Vanderbilt or Carnegie Mellon versus the Ivies/Oxbridge is accurate. Edinburgh is considered "better" and if anything, I'd think Edinburgh would be a more enjoyable place to study because of the city. St. A is really a small town so it's akin to going to a large LAC in a small town. [/quote]

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