This week the UK newspapers have been busy printing scare stories about how the US is about to abandon the visa waiver scheme for European passport holders. This is, of course, all diplomatic brinksmanship and highly unlikely to happen as The Guardian might wish, but it is a real row. The Economist puts its version of the story out here. US readers might want to take note of this:

…this reporter has spoken to a fair number of European security and counter-terrorism officials over the years, none of them softies and many of them instinctively pro-American. But they all had horror stories about the arrogance and aggression of their American counterparts. A senior American official, asked by this reporter about this a few months ago, groaned, and said he could do nothing about his colleagues from the Department of Homeland Security, who were, in his words, beyond reasoning with.

I think you need a new government, guys.