Bagehot Who runs Britain?

摘要

In the gaudy grandeur of the Locarno room in the Foreign Of-fice, the Stars and Stripes and Union Flags embraced like nestling swans. Standing in front of them with Gordon Brown, Ba-rack Obama laid it on thick. He thanked his host for his "extraordinary energy and leadership and initiative" before the G2O summit, owning the "extraordinary debt of gratitude" owed to the prime minister by the world.