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During the time of Pax Brittanica, I don't remember arguments like these. They don't belong during Pax Americana either.

From their website:

"BritainandAmerica.com is a proud believer in the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. This new blog will focus on political developments in the USA and offer an alternative account of those developments to that provided by, for example, the BBC (the Corporation itself recently acknowledging its tendency to anti-Americanism at its own 'bias seminar').

In some important respects the next US election will be more impactful on British citizens than their own General Election. Only the USA has the military power to defeat the terrorists in nations like Afghanistan and Iraq. If American voters choose isolationism over the next few years the whole world will be dramatically affected. If American voters choose protectionism the international economy and the poorest nations, in particular, will suffer. Without American leadership on global warming the Brown-Cameron commitment to climate change will be almost pointless.

If the implications for the UK of American politics provide one big theme of BritainandAmerica.com another big theme will be British media reporting of US politics:

The Financial Times and Economist have influential readerships in America.
High proportions of the online readerships of The Times and Guardian are from the USA.
And then, of course, there is the BBC. BBC Online is read widely in the USA and BBC foreign affairs programming is supplied to ABC and many US radio stations. BBC journalists are regular pundits on American news programmes. On Sunday night the BBC's Katty Kay was telling Chris Matthews that the world community would be disappointed at America if American voters did not punish the GOP for Bush's handling of the war in Iraq.
In today's global media village the British media are bigger and bigger players in US politics and they tend to help the Democrats.

Updated regularly BritainandAmerica.com will profile the main players in American politics and provide briefings on key themes including the role of Christian conservatives; the power of money in US politics; the increasing ghettoisation of news; and the power of tax policy at elections.

It will also look at what UK politicians can learn from American campaign techniques and use of the internet."

SIMPLISTIC PATRONISING ILL-INFORMED TRIPE. The BBC is an objective news organisation - something which is sadly lacking in America. The last thing we want is the ill-informed ideology driven nonsense that passes for news in the States. It's also about time that British politicians started questioning the so-called special relationship. Blair's blind support of American (and Israeli) government policy has risked our security and damaged our international standing.

Discarded due to negative votes by members.