by
Sam Roggeveen
5 June 2008
How come the Brits are seen as stuffy and priggish, while we think of ourselves as the knockabout types? The unfairness of this is apparent on the cricket field: not only are our players far more dour and joyless, but so are our umpires, compared to the English. And what of the parliament? Our House of Representatives has a reputation for being a bearpit, but our Question Time is nowhere near as free-flowing, exuberant and downright democratic as this (h/t Sullivan):