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I cannot get excited about the Rev Jesse Jackson - he belongs to another era. Though I agree that

More importantly, on the subject of cars and fuel costs (see recent posts), an American correspondent writes to inform me that more crimes of passion are committed in the US using the motor car as the weapon of choice than are committed with guns! Could this be true? If it is we have stumbled on yet another aspect of the culture of the nation that will be affected by the gas price hikes.

Meanwhile, as I carry on with my short break in the UK, again and again I meet people who are less hostile to the US than might have been the case even months ago.

Writing a (´óÏó´«Ã½-sanctioned!) - not a hagiography but a book that suggests that an affection for America is not necessarily a bad thing to have - is now a project seen as only faintly eccentric, indeed close to being acceptable in polite society.

I fear no blogging now for a week or so. I am going to the where it is not done...

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