Special relationship? America's still itching to bash us in the snoot

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on
Sunday column

The USA is my favourite foreign country – but I never forget that it is foreign, and has often been our enemy and our rival. So I am rather pleased that President Barack Obama has openly shown hostility to this country over the BP oil spill, unlike several of his forerunners, who smiled at us while doing us down.

It may help us all grow up and stop fawning on Washington. Far too many people – many of them academics, many politicians – continue...