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by chrisseaton 2288 days ago
The UK is a funny combination of collectivism and individualism. The NHS, BBC, the Blitz spirit, but also small-c-conservatism, almost always slightly-right-of-centre governments, the Monarchy. It's culturally mid-Atlantic - somewhere between the European way and the way in the United States. And that's pretty much how they're responding to this crisis, isn't it?