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Britain

• October 20 -- "Inattentive, Arrogant" Americans
Sarah Lyall's report on a backlash to an election-year ploy by a British newspaper includes this gratuitous slam: "Some of the letters from the States seemed to bolster the widespread European view that Americans, whether because of inattention or arrogance, do not care much about the world beyond their own borders."

• September 17 -- American "Arrogance and Excess" in Protecting Embassy
Sarah Lyall on security measures around the U.S. embassy in London: "…the scary-looking eyesore in this otherwise elegant area has become, to some, a symbol not just of American vulnerability, but also of its arrogance and excess."

• July 15 -- Bush Right on Uranium, but Marquis Misses the Scoop
Christopher Marquis covers the British report on problems with prewar intelligence but misses a big part of the story validating Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was shopping around for uranium.

• November 18 -- George Bush, Oil Tool
As George Bush prepares to go to London, Sunday's report by Alan Cowell describes in loving detail the European anti-war laundry list of anti-Bush particulars, and even gets Vietnam into the mix.

• October 10 -- "Authoritarian" Tories vs. "Tolerance"
Warren Hoge files from the Conservative Party conference in Britain: "[The party] is deeply split between a traditional law and order wing known in political shorthand as authoritarians and a group with a more tolerant attitude known as modernizers who preach 'compassionate conservatism.'"

• October 6 -- Ignoring Gun Control Failure, Here and Abroad
Lizette Alvarez files from Manchester on British police adopting American-style rules of "zero tolerance" to combat the rise in violent- and gun-related crime. But the story leaves out how gun crimes have soared since Britain banned private ownership of handguns.

• April 30 -- Up Mt. Everest, With A Left Turn At Mars
Alan Cowell’s story on the scaling of Mt. Everest makes a bizarre plunge into Margaret Thatcher-bashing.