The Economist's Blighty blogger characterises the response from the UK's fellow EU member states as one of "bafflement".

BBC: Commentators' verdicts on David Cameron's EU speech

Instead of recycling the usual cliches about quaint old Blighty, he gave us something between incredible spectacle and political theater.

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He was sent to Salonika, where he caught acute malaria and then, after a further spell of recuperation in Blighty, served out the final months of the war in France.

ECONOMIST: Bertie Felstead

Since I arrived in Old Blighty with my English wife last week, I've heard how the pound is struggling, real-estate values are plunging, austerity measures are widely disliked, the government is seen as harsh and ineffective, and unemployment is on the rise.

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