Back home

Away in Italy (I know, again...) for a family wedding last weekend. Naples city centre was car-free on Sunday to mark EU Car Free Day - it was spookily quiet, and very un-Neapolitan. My pa-in-law drives a Fiat Punto into town on the basis that if it gets stolen or damaged it really doesn't matter.

Anyway, back to basics, as someone once said. This article appeared in today's WSJ reviewing a collection of essays and articles on the War in Iraq - and especially US conservatives' attitudes to the same. The divide on the Right in the US is mirrored here, with the Old Right (Ken Clarke, Malcolm Rifkind) opposed to the exercise and the New Right (T Blair, Michael Portillo, David Cameron) in favour. Generalisation, I know, but it fits.