The Guardian? This was from Reuters.
Same difference. I am talking about the European socialist mindset. Once upon a time, as late as the time of Llyod George, the Guardian was a liberal paper. But especially after WWII it became incraesing Fabian socialist in its tone. They are so obsessed by "democratic centrialism" (to use the term without its totalitarian sense) that they are quite incapable opf understanding that state politics is still something done largely independent of what happens inside the Beltway. Even the federal bureaucracyis regionalized and those official there dependent on local government to a degree that cannot be understood in Europe.