TY - JOUR T1 - Gated minds JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 948 LP - 948 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X544249 VL - 60 IS - 581 AU - James Willis Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/581/948.abstract N2 - I am astonished at how many people I speak to who have never heard of the burgeoning political phenomenon in the US which is known, either because Americans are without irony or because they have never heard of Mad Hatters, as the ‘Tea Party’. But since the mid-term elections this new movement has become a power in the land, and therefore in the world, and it is high time we registered its existence and learned what it stands for, because you know what they say about things that happen in America…Quite a lot of my childhood happened in America, while my father was Atomic Energy Attaché at our embassy in Washington. I love the place and its traditions, its freedom, much of its culture. But recent trends there come … ER -