George “Moonbat” Monbiot, perhaps the environmental activist most detached from reality (and that’s saying something), has reacted

to the current introspection about Britishness that Stanley has been chronicling so well. He can’t be having any of this patriotism lark, and is honest enough to suggest that there can be no such thing as “liberal patriotism.” Meanwhile, I wonder if he thought through what this statement means:

If there is one thing that could make me hate America, it was the sight of the crowds at the Republican convention standing up and shouting “USA, USA”, while Zell Miller informed them that “nothing makes this marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators”.

Given that this did happen, presumably this is an admission that he does hate America. The alternative interpretation is that he transcended the experience and therefore cannot hate America, and I doubt he’d get invited to any more chic dinner parties if he admitted that.

Meanwhile, Tony Blair’s former environment minister Michael Meacher (who some unkind souls have alleged was sacked for incompetence) argues in The Times that America has embraked on the ultimate evil, the economic colonization of Iraq by, gasp, introducing capitalism. No doubt that will be a war crime at the International Criminal Court soon enough.

Thankfully, to show that these people aren’t yet quite beyond parody if the parodist is skillful enough, we have Britblogger Peter Briffa, who shows us what a British version of the Huffbomb might look like.