When I moved to New York in 2005 to be the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent, the first thing I was struck by was American manners.
I’d been expecting the New York backchat I’d learnt growing up from Danny DeVito’s Louie De Palma in Taxi — the rudest dispatcher at the Sunshine Cab Company.
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