Let me start out by saying if you are a fan in any way of Donald Trump this book is not going to be one for you and I will wish you a good day. The author goes to some lengths to demonstrate how much more religious Americans are than any other Western country. He finds many American people kind and generous but most find it anathema to pay too much income tax. Please, do not forget that about 200 years ago allegedly the Founding Fathers of the USA declared that “all men are created equal”.

In reality however it proved to be that George Orwell was right when wrote as follows: “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. Only the last chapter, a review of the first year of the Trump administration, feels a bit rushed and less engaging than the rest of the contents. Thankfully the situation in Libya is fine now, except that it's an epicentre for migrant child abuse, where African refugees are bought as slaves.In actual fact, the French or Germans are probably a lot closer to the British mindset than the Americans; it’s just that most people can’t understand them when they are speaking their native tongue. For me, Sopel seems like a stand-up guy doing his best to bring the latest events in the political arena to us the viewers. Why was Hilary Clinton so hated – something that mystified us in the UK – and why, indeed, was there so much hate generally in that ill spirited election? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Colt made them equal,” Decades passed already since the day the slogan came into the humanity’s life, imposing divisive appeal to each segment of society.

At the end of the book I was no clearer on whether Sopel, as a four year resident of Washington DC is an America - phile or an America -phobe . It seems that more than half the population consider themselves ‘seriously religious’ and it’s virtually inconceivable that an atheist candidate could – at this time, at least – find his or her way to the White House.In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs. It caused such a massive influx of prisoners, that the country heralded a special programme of prison building to cope with the extra demand for cells.

Proclaiming you have a special relationship with god and read the Bible every night doesn’t make you a good person and it certainly doesn’t make you presidential material…except in America. Could have given it five stars but there were some typos, the tone of voice got a bit tedious and there were some odd uses of commas.He doesn't dismiss Trump voters as "learning disabled" but suggests some rationale for their enthusiasm. Interesting analysis of the American political landscape by one of the BBC's most eminent journalists, who has himself been at the end of 'fake news' jibes by the current POTUS. They are not in the job of opposing Trump, and it should not be necessary for the journalist corps to have police protection.

Sopel shares some of his own (weirdly liberal) racist views, implying that ethnic minorities are too dumb to apply for photo ID. If you haven't spent the last two years glued to twitter and obsessively refreshing politico and 538, you'd probably get more out of this - but it felt like a series of headlines arranged by theme, and I'd already seen them all before. Instead he extensively expands on subject of his adventures in Northwest DC, the place that taxi-drivers prefer to stay away from. Overall I found this to be an entertains, occasionally amusing and often insightful look at life on the other side of the pond.He describes the idea that Jews have a "large influence and ownership and influence in our motion pictures", as a Zionist conspiracy-theory. Sopel is also funny about the amount of drinking that appears to go on during Washington get-togethers: almost none. Sopel explains some interesting history about the antisemitic America First Committee (AFC), which I didn't know about. I was contemplating suicide during the first 20 minutes of Trainwreck, but it got better when LeBron James appeared (the funniest person in that movie).