Daniel Hannan

Why can’t the English be more like the French?

In refusing to toe the Anglo-American line on Saddam, Jacques Chirac is acting in the interests of France, says Daniel Hannan. Tony Blair could learn from the French, without betraying the Atlantic alliance

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