Each tiny political change is cause for multiple wire reports, breathlessly chronicling these "developments" and magnifying anything that seems amiss.

Too many reporters with too much time on their hands. Kinda like lawyers.

Scotch Ale might have been a slightly better choice, though; which, by the way, isn't all that bad with Apple Pie, believe it or not.

Good beer goes with good food, period. :)

But then I'm a lush and a glutton, so don't mind me.

You fool! Apple pie is sweet, and good stouts are quite mellow. You want an ESB with apple pie, of course.

Mmmm, ESB. Aggghhhhh ,slobber, slobber.

Now I really want a Fullers ESB and I have 4.5 hours till beer-thirty.

Thanks Jeff, thanks a whole hell of a lot. ;)

This disparate political background tends to indicate that the issue of war has been studied from quite different perspectives which yielded the same conclusion. A rarity in this day of partisan politics.
Judicious Asininity.

While domestically Tony's instituting this (!) via Samizdata:

While we are furiously warblogging over at The Command Post, the statists at home have not been resting either. Two articles in the Telegraph, drawned by the Iraq war noises, report most worrying news. First about bailiffs allowed to break into homes.

Licensed enforcement agents will be authorised to break into people's homes and seize property from debtors under new Government plans announced yesterday. They will also be given powers of arrest.

The article quotes a rather disturbing statement by Baroness Scotland, a minister at the Lord Chancellor's Department:

Society wants those who owe money judgments to pay their dues but also wants to protect the vulnerable. So the system we propose will utilise the full weight of the law on those who won't pay while at the same time safeguarding vulnerable individuals who simply can't pay.

Anyone who has been in hill country in Texas knows how many Scots and other Europeans emigrated there.

Rule Brittania!