Going Home

Well, that's it for this US trip. As ever it's been astonishing and educational and well, fun. The country is gripped by election fever and watching the Clinton-Obama primaries with awe. Will one win out? Will they fight each other to a standstill and let McCain breeze through? Will the Democrat big-bananas (Gore, Kennedy etc) step in and referee. Who knows, but what I do know is that neither is talking about the country's drug problem and what to do about it. There again that's understandable, doubtless whatever their private views neither Clinton nor Obama is going to risk handing McCain a hostage to fortune by setting out a stall of drug reform before the election.

At dinner last night some US friends asked what people in the UK felt about the US. I said many of us didn't have much time for Bush or his (and Blair's) war but loved the country and its people. On the whole I think the US is a force for good in a naughty world and I can't wait to come back.