Special

Gerald Howarth, a Tory MP, today asked Gordon Brown to re-affirm the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States. The specific specialness about this relationship is that one side has any concept of its existence.

It is one thing to promote co-operation with the US on the basis of such common interests as might from time to time exist. But the "special relationship" lot should go and live in America, so that those of us who want to be British can get on with being British.

Then they would see just how special the Americans really think that we are. Or have ever even claimed to think that we are.