The US and us
From Mr John Dickenson Sir: Mark Steyn's further analysis of the soft elements in Europe (On the right side of history', 23 February) reminds me of the perfect embodiment of this phenomenon, at least in the English form.
Rik Maya11's character in the early 1980s series. The Young Ones, was an excitable Marxist student. The demoness Thatcher was in No. 10. The world was ripe for revolution; but, in one episode, a great flood threatened the student abode. Rik yelled. 'Call the police!', to which one of his fellow students replied, 'But they're fascists!' Rik's response was 'Yes, yes, but never mind that now!'
The US can expect the eyes of British liberals to join those of the rest of the country in looking westward if, God forbid, it really does all go disastrously wrong. But how far would the US go to help its errant cousin?
John Dickenson
Telford, Shropshire
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