I suspect it's true since the Guardian probably has a good pipeline into 10 Downing St. This may be the price Blair's attaching to continued support of the U.S. in Iraq. But I'll wait and see. If true it's suicidal to traditional U.S. interests, but no more so than the Bush policy on illegal immigration. One will kill our economy; the other will kill the value of our citizenship and our sovereignty. Both together: stop the world, I want to get off.
The Guardian is generally in sympathy with the liberal to left-wing ends of the political spectrum. This is reflected in the paper's readership: a MORI Poll taken between April-June 2000 showed that 80% of Guardian readers were Labour Party voters.
I think this may be wishful thinking on the part of the British Left.
"Does my right hon. Friend find it bizarre as I do that the yoghurt- and muesli-eating, Guardian-reading fraternity are only too happy to protect the human rights of people engaged in terrorist acts, but never once do they talk about the human rights of those who are affected by them?"