Les tristes vérités des “special relationships”
Les tristes vérités des >special relationshipsYamamahdocteur Miraclea senior State Department analystYo, Blair< moment, when the two leaders were recorded chatting during the G8 summit this year, had shown the Prime Minister to be in an >obsequious positiongave the lie to the idea of private British influenceBritain has moved closer to Europe, crab-like, and London is now much more like a European city — with European prices, I might add. But I think the British are still where they have been all along, unable to answer the fundamental question of ‘after Empire, what?’.Tony Blair could sound European on a good day, he could occasionally pronounce French… Les tristes vérités des “special relationships”