On stage, Izzard, an Englishman with a French last name who was born in Yemen, displays a keen understanding and criticism of international politics:
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. We'd just sail around the world and stick a flag in... "I claim India for Britain."
Then, the Indian retort, "You can't claim us, we live here! There are 500 million of us!"
The killer colonial rejoinder is, of course, "Do you have a flag?" "No flag no country, you can't have one!"
With Russia's titanium flagpole firmly in the seabed, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay gave his own opinion on the touchy territorial issue:
"This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say, 'We're claiming this territory.'"
Sound familiar?
- Sam Hopkins
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. We'd just sail around the world and stick a flag in... "I claim India for Britain."
Then, the Indian retort, "You can't claim us, we live here! There are 500 million of us!"
The killer colonial rejoinder is, of course, "Do you have a flag?" "No flag no country, you can't have one!"
With Russia's titanium flagpole firmly in the seabed, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay gave his own opinion on the touchy territorial issue:
"This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say, 'We're claiming this territory.'"
Sound familiar?
- Sam Hopkins
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