[Stoat]

Do Brits not speak in contractions? Or does the Brit media have a bias against them?

I'm guessing that there are quite likely just as many variations in style to British English as there is to American English.  What part of this story do you think would have been better expressed by the use of contractions?

[Xenalyte]

Dialogue, I think, is best served by being represented as it was spoken. (I’m weird that way.)