The British Moment
Yes, it's the ever optimistic Henry 'Scoop' Jacksonites, who are launching a new book, "The British Moment". The book is to argue 'argues that the time is ripe for Britain to play a leading and progressive role in promoting democracy and human rights across the globe'.Ok, it's not that exciting. But what is exciting is that Chapter 2 is entitled 'Britain and the world'.
This is very similar to the Henry 'Scoop' Jackson Society's website entry, 'Britain in the world', which of course contained our second favourite piece of online lunacy ever (after Nick Cohen's anti-America and anti-Blair idiocies):
Not only is it a world power...Britain ‘is unquestionably the world’s second strongest power’
The excitement then is will the book expand on the claim, apparently based on the scholarly effort of reading one article in the New Republic? Or will that great academic, Matthew Jamieson (if he is writing that chapter), go further, and claim that we are now the world's leading power? Will someone buy the book to find out? Will anyone?
posted by Matthew @ 6/24/2006 09:24:00 AM
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