Good comments on Nathaniel people! :-) As a Brit myself and someone who remembers the 1970s and the broken country we were, and the late 1980s when Thatcher had made us a top 5 economy. I think Nathaniel needs a history lesson, the facts unfortunately Nathaniel are your kryptonite.

Please. Thatcher was a political giant, one that comes along once in a millenia. Palin is not clever enough, savvy enough or indeed brutal enough to even compare. She's not fit to lace Thatchers boots.

Yes we do. What evidence is there for you saying that. Stay tuned and you will see the tributes over here.

Get your damn facts right. You mean "it is France" not Europe. Not that your know anyway Im sure, but the UK has cut and cut taxes on business. If you care to look it up, our Corporation Tax is much lower than the US. We did that to stimulate business, but have also now got a lot of French companies relocating to the UK as they run from this idiot Hollande. So get it right. Europe is a collection of very different countries, some right some left. You sign yourself Texan, well how would you like it is I lump your state in with say Michigan?

What irony! No one "cherry picks" scriptures like you christians. Take just one example. It clearly says "thou shalt not kill", but you choose to ignore that and take the "eye for an eye" passage as justification for the electric chair!

Dont be stupid. Europe was civilised way before you and still is. You need to get out of your hick town and do some travelling, Expand your mind because you are mentally shallow.

What is the problem. Cyprus is a basket case "economy" propped up by Russian millionaires who use it to stash their ill gotten money. We are being asked to bail it out, we take some of that money off them. And the problem is what?

Ah here we go again. A spurious argument for an excuse to attack by country yet again. Look if we are a socialist country, tell me why we have a Tory (right of centre) led coalition, are cutting back our public sector rabidly, have already reduced our debt by a third, are capping immigration, have rising employment and are now going to have a vote on getting out of the EU (which will be a yes). When YOU have a socialist president, a multi trillion dollar debt and rising, third world cities (Detroit for example) and you voted the socialists back in. Look, we are far from perfect, but it might be a good idea to look at yourselves before being ignorant and rude about a friendly country of which you have no clue about the facts.

I love the way Michell you are trying to look smug and intellectually superior. Its a pity your article is one of the most asinine and stupid ones Ive ever read. Try comparing your death by gun rates with a country, say mine, who has no guns. Then the comparison is correct. you will find we had a dozen and you could fill most of the superbowl stadiums you have with your numbers. So really you and I suspect some of the abusers who will hurl insults at me, are in complete denial.

Atheists dont have a holiday, or a religion or a book they worship...... You cant get your head round that atheists don't believe in a superstitious being you have no tangible proof for, and to help you get your heads round it you have to try and logicalise it with things you understand like "its a religion", "its a belief system" and so on. No it isn't. In the end all you have to do is produce your god to the rest of us as tangible proof and then we'd have to believe wouldn't we! So go on and do it and stop ranting about evil atheists.

Trouble for you people is atheists, pagans, muslims, sikhs, hindus et al pay taxes as well and dont want jesus shoved down their throats in public meetings that are nothing to do with faith. Want jesus, then go pray in your church.