(Audio) Why This Patriotic Brit Celebrates the Fourth of July

Britain gave America the philosophy of liberalism. America gave it political life.

I have a longstanding tradition with my American followers on Twitter. For the last fifteen years, every Fourth of July, I have posted some variation of the above meme. I am then immediately deluged with memes of eagles freedoming superciliously, tea being thrown into harbours, and men in star-spangled underpants behaving ill-advisedly in hurricanes.

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