Obama Is Driving British Conservatives Crazy

Alex Massie, The Spectator
There has always been a prickly, touchy, latent anti-Americanism on the British right and, gosh, haven’t we been reminded of that these past few days? The views of Wilson and Roosevelt have been cited (and it is true that the Americans viewed the British Empire with, shall we say, some scepticism. But you can’t really fight wars for ‘democracy’ and add the rider ‘except for the pink bits of the map’). Why, even the ghosts of Suez have been resurrected: Cameron’s acquiescence in Obama’s press conference is the greatest British humiliation since Suez, apparently.