English Culture Goes South

So much for the myth of European moral and cultural superiority.

Pop star Madonna has fallen in love with English country life, she has told American Vogue magazine.

In a interview with the magazine, the singer said she sees England - and not the US - as "home".

She is pictured in the August edition of the style magazine with her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, and two children Lourdes and Rocco.

The 46-year-old also said she is very different from her overtly sexual image of the 1990s.

She told the magazine: "The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pub going nature lover.

"And the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn't take no for an answer.

"But now I love England and want to be here and not in America. I see England as my home."

Many English folks who read this will consider the defection, so to speak, of people like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow as a coup for European culture. Unfortunately for them, Madonna's a washed up hag, essentially America's rubbish; and Gwyneth Paltrow's career is going absolutely nowhere. As far as I'm concerned, their relocation, particularly Madonna's, to England is a victory for America, not a loss.