While Bush got the U.K. into the Afghan war, Obama’s asking them to fight on—and the British are ready to leave. Richard Heller on how the war is testing Britons’ love for America’s new president.
Richard Heller is a British author and journalist and former chief of staff to Denis Healey, Deputy Leader of the British Labour Party.
An angry parliament and hungry lawyers are likely to keep Rupert Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal in the headlines and, Richard Heller writes, force Britain’s pols to stand up to the media baron.