Last night was the Super Bowl, one of the biggest nights on the American sporting calendar, if not the biggest but many people in Britain were also completely involved with the 2014 Super Bowl being watched by more than 4 million people in the UK alone. If people didn’t watch any of the NFL season they could not get away from the fact that it was Super Bowl night which dominated British social networking. The NFL franchise has even seen the market in the UK by playing a game on British soil each year. The United Kingdom is also giving back to the sport producing players such as Osi Umenyiora, defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons and Menelik Watson an offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders.

It is not only in sport that we see this, Steve White the head of the Police federation wants to give all front-line officers a taser. Though not quite as problematic as a gun, it still shows a step towards a more weaponised police force. The aim is to protect the Police against terrorism but they do their job’s well with what they are given, in a scenario needing use, a taser would be needed with someone carrying a weapon most likely a gun, which out muscles a taser deeming it pointless giving only a matter of time before the police are also given guns, so the taser is merely a stepping stone to achieve this.

Black Friday shopping has also massively taken over the UK, it is to mark the day after Thanksgiving which isn’t even a celebrated holiday in Britain yet massive companies such as Tesco, Argos and Sainsbury’s all slashed prices to join in with the American fun fair and enjoy a profit. The 2014 Black Friday was the busiest day on record for Amazon UK, they sold 64 items per second clearing over 5.5 million goods. John Lewis, who do take part in the Black Friday sales are not huge fans however the companies managing director Andy Street saying that it puts them under strain to match the demand from customers.

American slang has also slipped into British vocabulary, terms such as ‘Bae’ (before anyone else) which is said instead of ‘Babe’ and ‘Sweetie’ etc. The term was widely used across the US, even by celebrities like Pharrell in his BET performance. Another term used is ‘On Fleek’ (very good’) which is widely used in slag across the States to describe anything that has been done well, but you can now go across UK social media and see a vast amount of people putting up images saying terms such as ‘My hair on fleek’.