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<P>I'd say ,ghd hair straighteners, wouldn't you? The winning candidate made an elevated speech that imbued the whole world with a touch of American patriotism. The loser spoke beautifully, with a pathos that had eluded him during the campaign,gucci. The popular vote was closer than some of the coverage suggests; but people on both sides have behaved with exemplary magnanimity.

It's worth repeating that American democracy is too easily taken for granted. Kenya's president,Mulberry handbags, Mwai Kibaki, has granted a national holiday in honour of Barack Obama's success – even though he blocked the election of Mr Obama's clansman, Raila Odinga, at the recent Kenyan elections. When a Luo can more easily become president of America than of Kenya, it tells you something about America.

Watching the coverage, I have been struck by the sense of national togetherness, even of catharsis. I'm reminded of the 1997 election here, when even those who had voted Tory got caught up in the mood. No doubt Barack Obama will disappoint his supporters, as Tony Blair did. No doubt anti-Americanism will, , reassert itself in time. But this doesn't alter the fact that most people, in the US and beyond,Nike Air Max 90 Australia, feel better about America this morning than they did 24 hours ago.

True, lots of people are by the messianic language used by Obama's supporters. I don't much care for it myself, even though I was one of the earliest ,Mulberry bags. But it's important to understand where it comes from. It has become a clich?? to talk of slavery as America's "original sin",ghd. What is sometimes missed on this side of the Atlantic is that, in a country which retains a strong sense of providence, people want to pursue that metaphor to its proper conclusion: redemption. And that is what,cheap ghd, for many Americans &#8211,Mulberry handbags; even convinced McCain supporters,Air Max 90, &#8211,ghd hair straighteners; the election result means. There is no office to which a black American cannot now reasonably aspire.

National narratives matter, perhaps more in the US than elsewhere. That country was founded on a set of principles: the rights of man, representative government, individual liberty. Barack Obama's election is a visible realisation of the universal applicability of those ideals. Now, perhaps more than ever before in peace-time, America feels like single country, united under one flag and under the finest constitution devised by human intelligence.

"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill: the eyes of all people are upon us," preached John Winthrop on his way to the new land in 1630. "We must delight in each other; make others' conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body." Amen.

As I noted in , Barack Obama has no interest in standing with Britain over the Falklands, in Colombia at the Summit of the Americas:

And in terms of the Maldives [sic] or the Falklands, whatever your preferred term, our position on this is that we are going to remain neutral. We have good relations with both Argentina and Great Britain, and we are looking forward to them being able to continue to dialogue on this issue,Louis Vuitton Handbags Australia. But this is not something that we typically intervene in.

The Obama presidency has made it clear that it views Britain and Argentina as equal allies. This, despite the fact that Great Britain is a?world power?that has fought alongside the Americans in almost every major US-involved war over the past 70 years (with the,Mulberry bags?notable exception of Vietnam). In contrast,lunettes oakley, Argentina is an insignificant international actor, currently led by , which has barely lifted a finger to help the Americans in the past,cheap ghd.

Barack Obama's latest knife in the back for Britain – and - should be a wake-up call for David Cameron, whose recent trip to Washington was an undignified? toward a Left-wing?president who doesn't even like the British. The prime minister should understand that Barack Obama is no friend of Britain and never will be. And nor is his Secretary of State, who Argentina's calls for UN-brokered negotiations between London and Buenos Aires over the sovereignty of the islands.

The Obama presidency has beeen the most anti-British US administration of modern times. No amount of photo-ops at college basketball games, on Air Force One, or lavish state dinners will change that. To Mr Obama,?the Prime Minister?is little more than a convenient campaign prop: a compliant?figure to roll out to the US media to give the impression?he actually has friends on the world stage. It is time for David Cameron's?reckless adulation of,cheap ghd straighteners?the Obama White House to come to an end.

President Obama doesn't believe in the Special Relationship, and this was clearly on display in Colombia. Britain's true friends in America are on the Right,ghd straighteners, not the Left. It is American conservatives who are the natural allies of Britain, not the big-government liberals currently occupying the White House, and doing their best to import the European social model and EU-style bureacracy and regulations into America. The Obama administration has been ,Air Max 1, backing every step in further European integration, frequently at Britain's expense. They are not the allies of national sovereignty or British leadership in Europe,sac gucci pas cher.

With his embarrassing fawning over Barack Obama, Mr Cameron has been burning bridges with the Right in America,chanel, while gaining nothing for his country,louis vuitton outlet. With the latest Gallup polls showing Obama , it would be prudent for Downing Street to rethink its?entire approach towards the current White House, and start reaching out to US conservatives, who?respect Britain and actually?believe in the Special Relationship.

. I find myself conflicted, so I thought I’d write something tortured and unsatisfying that manages to anger both sides of the debate,Mulberry outlet.

Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way. If you’ve bought a copy of the song, you may well be an idiot. It’s grimly misogynistic (“witch”? Seriously?); it’s not even slightly funny; and the idea of celebrating the death of an elderly, senile woman who has been out of power for 23 years is both sick and stupid. :

Her death wasn't instrumental in ending her period of power,gucci. So joy in seeing the back of her in that sense doesn't come into it… when Margaret Thatcher died she was an old and ill woman,oakley france, with people around her who cared about her. To take pleasure at this is an inhumanity that does no credit to those who so indulge themselves. They forget the simplest and most enduring of human truths for an ugly temporary pleasure.

Exactly. Don’t pretend that crowing at an old woman’s death is anything other than crowing. You’re not speaking truth to power or daringly backing a rebellion; you’re making an easy and cheap joke, cosily swaddled in the mainstream of popular thought, while a body is still warm. Congratulate yourself for it if you like, but I won’t.

But it is what it is. Twenty thousand or so people have displayed risk indicators for idiocy and bought this stupid song. Now, the BBC has a decision to make, about whether to play the song in its top 40 on Sunday.

My own instinct this morning was that they should play it. , none of us has a right not to be offended. But let’s not make this a straightforward battle over free speech, because it’s not as simple as that. The BBC is in the same position that : it is the one hosting the content, and it gets to decide if it’s appropriate or not. The “free speech” being exercised when it decides to play (or not play) the song isn’t the free speech of the protest-song buyers, it’s the free speech of the BBC,sac chanel pas cher. And it would not be a terrible blow for freedom if Tony Hall decided that he doesn’t want to play along with a stupid, ugly stunt chuckling about the death of a frail old woman.

This is complicated by the fact that it’s a publicly funded institution and that there is immense pressure on the BBC from newspapers not to play the song. The fact that the Beeb is under this pressure makes the free speech case stronger: as Toby says, next time, the pressure might come from other angles,ghd, and we might not like the result.

I’ve had a startlingly angry row with someone in this office this morning,ghd hair straighteners, in which I said that the Beeb should play the damn song, sick and nasty as it is, and my opponent reacted as though I’d suggested displaying the flayed corpses of children on Tower Bridge,ghd straighteners. There is real strength of feeling over this, real hurt and anger,ghd sale, not just a kneejerk moment of opportunity to attack the BBC, and it’s worth recognising that. I don't think the analogy is quite fair,ghd hair straighteners, but my opponent said that if, say, someone had released a song laughing at the deaths of suicide-bombing victims in Syria or something, and it somehow got to number four, it wouldn't be ridiculous for the BBC to say this is bad taste and we don't want to support it.

Similarly, there is a not-ridiculous case to be made that the BBC bowing to pressure to ban a song for what could be described as political reasons, even if most people would think they’re reasons of taste, sets an alarming precedent.

Yes, I know I’ve come to no conclusions here. Yes, I know this is mealy-mouthed handwringing of the worst stereotyped knit-your-own-muesli kind. But I just wanted people on both sides to acknowledge that it’s not a simple “free speech” or “sick filth” issue. Whatever call the BBC makes, it’s going to catch hell from somebody, and with good reason,cheap ghd straighteners. I’m just glad I’m not Tony Hall.

I've just been talking to a very clever man. He's called Thompson Ayodele, he's from Nigeria and he thinks that overseas aid is making African countries poorer,Mulberry outlet. The statistics he produces are jaw-dropping. They suggest a direct correlation between the receipt of development assistance and low growth. This is true whether you compare neighbouring countries, or whether you look at different periods within the same country,ghd. Foreign aid, he suggests,Nike Air Max 90 Cheap, isn't useless; it's actively harmful,lunettes oakley. It discourages enterprise, fosters dependency and bolsters corrupt regimes. A similar correlation exists between debt remission and insolvency: countries which have their bills periodically written off become re-indebted more quickly than countries which don't.

James Elles MEP,ghd straighteners, Thompson Ayodele and me

It's quite a dilemma for Western governments – especially those of the Centre-Right. Socialists have a tendency to emphasise motive over outcome. Never mind that aid shields recipient governments from the consequences of their policy failures: the key thing, for Lefties, is to show that you're a caring person.

Fair enough. But if we genuinely wanted to help Africa,cheap ghd, says Thompson, we wouldn't give one more penny in direct grants. Instead, we would scrap the Common Agricultural Policy, open our markets and build infrastructure directly in situ: in other words, we'd fund (say) a new highway across Sudan and hold competitive tenders for local companies to build it.

The trouble is that if conservatives announced that they were going to cut overseas aid budgets, not everyone would believe that they were doing so as a result of Thompson's cogent philosophy. They would be accused, rather, of doing it because they were selfish or because they didn't care about people whose skins were darker than theirs. Hence,ghd, perhaps, my party's determination, at a time of general economic retrenchment, explicitly to guarantee the international development budget against future cuts.

As Thompson puts it: "The British Treasury is empty,ghd hair straighteners. So you are going to be borrowing money in order to give it away. And the countries that get it will be poorer as a result",cheap ghd straighteners. Yup: but at least we'll have shown everyone how nice we are,Mulberry outlet.

<P>My daughter how sharper than a serpent's tooth has become a Euro-fanatic. She points excitedly whenever we pass a twelve-star flag. She nags me about moving permanently to Brussels. She grins from ear to ear whenever she hears the EU anthem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. (It has much the same effect on her father, by contrast, as on Alex in A Clockwork Orange, and for the same reason: bad connotations). She is,chanel, in short, the model European citizen. And she's only five years old.

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Alex and I share an aversion to Beethoven's Ninth

It's all a question of perspective, I suppose. For her, Brussels means Eurostar journeys and eating in restaurants and being allowed frites and dame blanche because Mummy isn't there. It means exploring the quirky corridors of a building that, to a young child, must seem like a mediaeval castle. It means playing with Daddy's bubbly researcher Rebecca. It means being made a fuss of by the ushers and security guards and kitchen staff who can remember when she was a baby.

As I pondered this, I was hit by a dazzling revelation. Aren't these, mutatis mutandis, the only reasons that anyone supports the Brussels system these days? The EU budget may look like a waste of money but, in fact, it is purchasing the allegiance of powerful and articulate groups in each country: contractors,gucci, big farmers, local councillors,cheap ghd, journalists.

The EU spends ??250 million a year flying reporters especially local reporters to Brussels, and showing them a good time. It spends hundreds of millions more on . It churns out .

It's very rare, these days,louis vuitton outlet, to find people who just happen independently to have made up their minds in favour of transferring more powers to Brussels. Whenever I am accosted at a public meeting by people mouthing the tell-tale slogans "we have to be in there to argue our case",louis vuitton outlet AU, "what about 50 years of peace in Europe", "of course I'm not a federalist, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be constructively engaged" I ask them what they do for a living. Nine times out of ten, they turn out to be either a retired Eurocrat or what one might call a worker in an ancillary industry: a Jean Monnet professor,sac gucci, for example, or an adviser on pan-European defence procurement. It is surprising how often someone's Euro-enthusiasm turns out to be directly proportionate to his financial stake in the system.

The same principle is at work among MEPs. I have watched the transformation of the delegates from the new member states over the past three years. As their lips have become more firmly champed around , so they have started to see all sorts of advantages in European integration that were previously opaque to them.

It happens even among entire countries. There are very few EU nations that would vote "Yes" to the European constitution: even Germans have . In fact, only two states secured "Yes" votes from their peoples: Spain, where the Prime Minister kept insisting during the campaign that "four out of every ten kilometres of our highways were paid for by Brussels"; and Luxembourg, the single largest per capita recipient in the EU. (That's right: Luxembourg, the wealthiest country in Europe,Mulberry outlet, is also the one that does best out of the budget.)

Fifty years on, there is little idealism left in the European project. I am reminded of mood in the Soviet bloc in the 1980s,lunettes oakley, where very few people believed in the principles of Marxism-Leninism, but plenty understood that their status depended on the maintenance of the system. As with the Comecon states then,gucci homme, so with the Evropeiski Soyuz now: the apparatchiks carry on mouthing their old slogans,ghd, but everyone else has seen through their racket.

As for the five-year-old, I'm treating this as her major rebellion against her parents. With luck, she'll have got it all out of her system by her teens.