Amid all the talk that ‘Europe’ is now viscerally anti-US (it isn’t, but some of its elite certainly is), here’s a reassuring poll from those reliably semi-detached members of that continent, the Brits. For all the protests about the Bush visit, most Britons still seem to welcome his visit.

Meanwhile, baying from the lunatic asylum, Ken Livingstone, London’s laughable mayor, decided to insult the victims of Stalin, Hitler and Mao with the comment that “Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we’ve most probably ever seen’.

The President will also be visiting Blair’s constituency. The Independent reports some comments from the locals, including predictably preening commentary from the usual useless clergyman, speaking, doubtless, from the usual deserted church.