“NHS very nice”—Britain's National Health Service is distinctly average, so why the Borat level of excessive exaltation on its birthday?
is distinctly average. “It is neither leader nor laggard,” according to the King’s Fund, a health think-tank. It is relatively cheap and efficient but still bad at tackling diseases such as cancer;
Part of this is blissful ignorance. Britons sometimes seem unaware of how poor the country’s housing stock is compared with elsewhere. Damp is treated as a fact of life. Double-glazing is still listed as a selling-point rather than a given on the same level as “four walls” and “roof”. Britons resemble Borat entering a lift in a hotel and immediately unpacking, thinking it is his room for the night.
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