Number 24 – They make good men into butlers, and butlers into slaves

It was all going so well, I thought this book might be getting more accurate with the previous chapter, but then, Mr Grasse goes and ruins it again.
Butlers were – and indeed are – thought of very highly, both by the people the serve and by the people who serve under them (basically they are managers of a household). They are well paid for the work they do and are much loved.
To give the example of Paul Burrell at the end of this chapter is foolish, as any British person knows he is scum, he has besmirched the good name of the Royals with his lies. He was called to the inquest into the death of Princess Diana and, in his words "told the truth as far as I could – but I didn't tell the whole truth. Perjury is not a nice thing to have to contemplate. I was very naughty.", this caused the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, to warn the jury by saying "You have heard him in the witness box and, even without what he said subsequently in the hotel room in New York, it was blindingly obvious that the evidence that he gave in this court was not the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."

Number 23 – They hooked the Chinese on opium

I'm not going to argue with this one, Mr Grasse is correct (23 chapters in and he's got one right!), one point he doesn't say is that because of this the Chinese felt humiliated, which caused the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions and ended Dynastic rule in China.

Number 22 – They make time for tea

The whole basis of this argument is that the British take up to an hour for a tea-break, again, I'm happy to say that this is not the case. As a nation we take less breaks that the rest of Europe, and also work longer hours than the Americans (UK=44.4 hours USA=40 hours). Just to clarify, we have lunch-breaks not tea-breaks. Also Mr Grasse to say that because of this “ritual” (I think you'll find it's the Japanese who have a tea ritual) we wouldn't be carrying an extra fifteen pounds around our waistline is stupid, after all, which nation is the fattest? That's right, the USA wins again.
Just a couple more points you ignoramus, scones do not get dipped into tea as they are cakes, and cookies is an American word, the proper word is biscuit. Fool.

Number 21 – They conceal their caveman past with false histories

I have two problems with the statement above, firstly “caveman”, cavemen did not exist anywhere, let alone Britain. I presume Mr Grasse means Neanderthol or Cro-Magnon and the latest they existed (in the UK) is about 30,000 years ago, so, wrong again Mr Grasse. Secondly “false histories”, the British were known for making up stories, in much the same way every culture has, these are stories not histories.
The last point in this chapter is that the Chinese were building “a wall so big you can see it from the moon”, really? Ask Neil Armstrong if he saw it, no he didn't as you can't see it from the moon, there are only two man-made things you can see from the moon and they are The Netherlands and Fresh Kills (the rubbish dump on Staten Island, New York).

Number 20 - They believe in dragons, sea monsters and other creatures

Mr Grasse states that the British believe in a large and imaginary fish called a Leviathan, rubbish, the Leviathan was mentioned in both the Bible (Old Testament) and in the Hebrew Bible, but the name came to mean nothing more than a large whale, and there are plenty of them about.
The “fact” that the British put fanciful monsters on their maps is – as far as I can find out – not true I can't find any British maps with these monsters. I can, however find plenty of Icelandic examples, but no British ones. I'd love to be proved wrong on this, if anyone has any please let me know.
In the last paragraph Mr Grasse says that while we were worried to go too far into the unknown the Spanish and Portuguese explorers blazed across the seas. It's true to say that the Spanish and Portuguese did discover many new lands, but when they got there what did they do? Wiped out most of the indigenous cultures that's what.
While I'm on the subject of mapmakers, it is often quoted that America got it's name from an Italian mapmaker called Amerigo Vespucci. This is most probably not the case, it was actually the Welshman Richard Amerike. The reason it doesn't seem plausible that it was named after Amerigo Vespucci is that it if people had places named after them, it would be their surname, rather than their forename that was used.
After doing more research on this topic I have come across a story about a passenger ship called the Mauretania, in 1934 a series of articles appeared in the highly respected newspaper The New York Times stating that the crew of the Mauretania had numerous sightings of sea serpents, this, of course, was a lie perpetrated by both The New York Times and the reporter T. Walter Williams, but, it seems that most of the people in the USA who read the reports believed them. So just remind me Mr Grasse, which nation believe in fictitious sea serpents?