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The view from across the pond

Friday, 11th May 2007

What's this? An American conservative finding good things to say about Europe? Thank you, Peggy Noonan. It makes a change from her colleagues' usual dismissive, jeering pieces about the old continent. One thing that's struck me more and more in the last few years is how one-dimensional much of the US Right's coverage has been. Of course, anti-Americanism is a major, major problem over here, but that's no excuse for a piece as over-heated as Carol Gould's latest dispatch in the Weekly Standard. She starts with what sound like legitimate complaints about the way Grosvenor Square residents are behaving towards the American Embassy, then veers off into a rant about resistance to American take-overs of football clubs and, er, the lack of air-conditioning on the Tube. Very odd. I like the Weekly Standard. I've written for it in the past. But the tone of its coverage of life over here is, well, a little eccentric.