St. Patty’s Day
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
- Winston Churchill
Classy
Last week, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown paid his first official visit to the new president at the White House.
Brown presented Obama with the following gifts:
• An ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet. (Which reportedly delighted Obama, who placed it on his Oval Office desk.)
• The [...]