Airstrip One

Back of the Net - 26th January 2003, 17.34

A ha! Steven Chapman scores in one commenting on Nick Clegg....

Actually I think my view that Britain needs to choose between the US and Europe needs revising. There is a third choice: Britain can choose Britain. Britain can choose to freely develop its relations with the US, Europe and the rest of the world - and especially the Commonwealth, some of whose nations (I'm thinking specifically of New Zealand and Australia, but there are others) feel we have turned our backs on them - as we see fit, to our own advantage. Pro-Europeans constantly whine about the decline of the nation-state and our alleged inability to make our way in the world without Europe - but I say we are Théoden and they are all Wormtongues.