Posted on November 16, 2003 by Paul Mirengoff

An uplifting perspective on the president’s trip to England

Tom Utley of the Daily Telegraph on President Bush’s visit to England. Utley provides a more cheerful perspective than the one I posted below from Mark Steyn. Most of Utley’s piece involves personal and historical reflections. But Utley really delivers the goods in his concluding paragraphs:
“Many Britons are kicking up a fuss about all the disruption that the President’s visit will cause, and the cost of the security operation to the Treasury. This seems extraordinarily mean-spirited to me. Even if the cost is 10 times greater than the

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