English conservatives do play guitar.

Well, TOny Blair does, and that's close enough.

The newspaper view over here is that the belief that the second amendment authorises all and sundry in the USA to carry rifles, pistols, and other firearms is a misinterpretation.

And most other (major european) countries I think prohibit the carrying of knives with blades over a certain length, and other "offensive weapons".

And could we perhaps start to think about other things in the left-right divide - like the right to unionise or strike, to a living wage, a social security system that permits a person to live a civilised life, proper national health service, all things stolen from the people by that lunatic Thatcher and sometimes sought to be justified by the new wave economic theorists by reference to the recent US boom - that now appears to be turning into an implosion. DO these things and the eventual success of Keynesians in taming the great recession teach us anything?

Will respect for continuity in Japan make that the first economy to lead the world out of the economic shadows that seem to be falling?

Why does the USA with less than 20% of the wold's population think itself entitled on economic grounds to produce 80% of the world's greenhouse gases when the hole in the ozone layer will lead to the inundation of how many percent of the world's dry land?

Why shoud WIPO feel entitled to dictate economic and social policy outside the USA?

Etcetera.