It is, it seems, impossible to escape the anti-Americanism that runs through the London Independent like some rancid stream. Here, buried deep in a review of a movie that is itself hardly a paean to the US, we find this charming comment:

“But this would be to ignore the veiled criticism of America, once the country that prided itself on being a refuge to the tired and poor but more recently the scourge of immigrants and aliens.”

A scourge?