Barack Obama, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, special
relationshipIN A speech the other day Nick Clegg announced that
the “special relationship” between America and Britain was over.
He criticised British leaders for their "slavish" devotion to
Washington. "If you speak to hard-nosed folks in Washington they
think it's a good relationship, but it's not the special
relationship," Mr Clegg said. The alliance with America is the
sacred cow of British foreign policy, many of whose practioners
dream, in unguarded moments, that Britain can play Greece to
America's Rome. Disparaging the relationship publicly is just
not done.  The American response to this threat to a supposedly
cherished alliance can be summed up as “who's Nick Clegg?”
Britain will hold a general election on May 6th, and despite
many comforting British assumptions about shared interests and a
shared political culture, most Americans couldn't care less.
They don't know that Mr Clegg is leader of the surging Liberal
Democrats, what differentiates David