Irwin Stelzer - Times Online - WBLG

Inequality in America and at The Economist

In a nation in which news is often filtered through the relentlessly leftwing prism of the BBC, The Economist is an island of apparent balance. Or is it?

Brown vs Cameron

Sooner or later Britain's voters will have to make a choice: Gordon Brown, or David Cameron.  If Brown retains his high-tax, regulation-writing proclivities when he moves from No. 11 to No. 10, and Cameron his policy-lite campaign, potential voters would have good reason to wish a plague on both their houses.

But if Brown finally signs on to a reform agenda, and holds the line on taxes, while Cameron discovers a few deeply held beliefs, British voters will be spoilt for choice.

The Message of United 93

It’s a pity that more people in Britain won’t go to see United 93, a pitiless reconstruction of the fate of 40 passengers at the hands of four Arab Islamic terrorists aiming their flying bomb at my nation’s Capitol. Not because the movie would make them angry, which it probably, but not certainly, would. (I say “not certainly” because I have been at chattering class dinner parties at which otherwise intelligent people blamed September 11 on “America’s beastly treatment of the Arabs”, or on Israel.)