"You are anti-Royalist and all things UK" etc. Post #7 here. Water off a duck but you still have not refuted anything just ad hom and now gas lighting, ("I did not call you names"
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Turns out the UK does have more horses than tanks just I asserted. Strange but true. If the UK wants to have more horses than tanks that is their choice. You were wrong and very confident about it ("BS" . Apology accepted in advance.
I know English history well and have toured the country several times. Have been to the fake Globe theater and have seen excellent theater productions in the West End. England has a strong theatrical tradition and great support for the arts. A key distinction between the US and UK came with the birth of broadcast radio around 1922. The USA used interruption advertising while the UK created the BBC with the idea that media should educate and elevate in ways that made commercial sponsorships incompatible.
I like parts of Shakespeare but in my own experience growing up in a theatrical family, sitting through live Shakespeare as a child was a real turn off, not just to Shakespeare but to live theater in general. The first live theater I liked was "Stop the World I Want to Get Off" with Anthony Newly and then an excellent amateur production of 'Guys and Dolls'. Forcing anyone to sit through 3 hours of shouted iambic pentameter (Shakespeare) that they barely, or do not at all, understand is a disservice to them and to theater.
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