[marron]

I want to be wrong. Blair has a moral center and a sense of mission about him, but he is out of step with his own Labor Party, and the Conservatives there seem determined to reject any role for Britain on the world stage.

Even Blair seems awfully anxious to get back to the business of subsuming Britain into Greater Europe.

[pau1f0rd]

the Conservatives there seem determined to reject any role for Britain on the world stage

in what way? I live in the UK, and I've heard nothing that would suggest this. Quite the contrary, in fact.