Being French is a full time job

This Bloomberg piece by Michael Lewis is hysterical. And yes, McVities digestives really are that good.

"We used to stock those," she said, sweetly, "but we kept running out, so we've stopped."

Right then I thought: Thatcherism is doomed. The English will never embrace efficiency, or money-making, or the-customer- is-always-right mindset, or any of those uneasy values that underpin modern capitalism.

There's must more, read the whole thing.