More cultural differences

The American writer, Lionel Shriver, was commenting on the fact that the Labour party chose a new leader who is an unmarried father. She said that had he been in America, Ed Milliband’s advisers would have bullied him into getting married long ago. But she thought it just as interesting that in a television interview he declared himself to be an atheist. She said this “would destroy his political career in perpetuity where I come from.”