[BBKing]

Hence my distinction between being anti-American and anti-US. The US I'm entirely in favour of, 'America', as expressed by, effectively, the President becoming an old-school 'L'Etat, c'est moi' absolute monarch, is not something anyone with the remotest pretensions to being a civilised human being could stomach. Indeed, as things stand it's impossible, logically, to support both America as currently legally constituted and the ideal of the US as set out in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The biggest threat to the US is Bush and co., not bin Laden, Ahmedinijad or Kim il wotsit.

Blair let something slip yesterday by saying he'd much rather detain terrorist suspects than put them under control orders, forgetting that the (illegal) detention powers passed in 2001 never gave him the right to detain British citizens. That'll come soon, and they'll point at the US law as an example to follow.