Do Americans hate my country?

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as
a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening…

During an assignment in Washington I watched Bill Clinton fawn over the grisly IRA apologist Gerry Adams.

I learned that White House officials regarded us as on a level with, say, Yugoslavia – an annoying, backward European nation to be ordered about and forbidden to control its internal affairs.

That’s how it really stands. I would like a British Government to behave as if it understood this, instead of mouthing outdated and meaningless fake Chur­chillian ‘Finest Hour’ rubbish.