Saturday, September 25, 2004

Britain's national interest...

is not America's, Niall Ferguson argues in this week's Spectator, adding that Blair and Bush's relationship is the last gasp of the so-called special relationship. I don't know how much I agree with it, but it's a refreshing change to see a Conservative arguing the case.

Much of the British right, and especially those who blog, much prefer America to Britain (or at least their idealised view of America to Britain) and will find Ferguson's argument absurd. For them there can be no difference between the national interest and America's national interest, because it is the same.