I am really depresed at the infantile way that our media have covered Gordon Brown's first official visit to the States.

We have had endless commentary about how he will get on with George Bush.Endless discussion about personal chemistry.God, we are so obseseed with personality. So what if Brown and Bush don't become buddies?John Major and Bill Clinton were not close, that did not stop them from working together in Northern Ireland.In the end whoever is President has to work with whoever is in Downing Street. Our media seem almost neurotic about this.

It is almost weird that the same media claimed that Blair was Bush's poodle.He was all to willing to follow the American lead.Now we are working ourselves into a tizzy about Gordon and Dubya.

We should take a look at another relationship that is right on our doorstep which is just as important.The French-German alliance is crucial in European politics. Almost every French President since De Gaulle has had a good working realtionship with the German Chancellor.
Sometimes the relationship works very well like Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl.

It is a mark of your deceline as a world power that we still see our closeness to Washington as crucial to foreign policy.It's time we stopped sucking up to be America's best buddy.Recent events have shown that it's an unequal partnership, which means that we are not always sure what we are getting out of it.

One day, a British Prime Minister will realise that.I live in hope.

You could not get away from Allistair Campbell this week.He was on the TV,in the papers and on the radio. His long awaited diaries must be flying off the shelves as the media seemed obsessed with them.

This was the first time that a member of the Gang of Four, the others being Blair, Brown and Mandelson who created New Labour, had written about the inner machinations of Tony Blair's government.

We read about Iraq,Kosovo,the euro,Robin Cook and lots of other stuff.The problem is that highlights more than ever that Tony Blair's government was totally media driven.

The fact that Campbell became so powerful, able to bollock elected members of the Cabinet was because Blair always had one eye on how things played in the media.Campbell was his enforcer, his Luca Brasi(If you've seen or read The Godfather....).Which is why Tony Blair would make idiotic announcements about yobs being marched to cashpoints to pay fines for anti social behaviour, it makes a good headline and he appears tough on crime.Only a man like Campbell who was once a tabloid journalist would advise him to do that.

The power that Campbell had was attributted to the fact that Downing Street became like the US drama The West Wing.Political advisors were able to order civil servants and Cabinet ministers around.We had a Prime Minister who thought of himself as a President, and acted like one.He had no time for parliament.

It is a good thing that Campbell left government.What he reveals in his diaries that New Labour spent too much time campaigning and far too little governing.

You know that the world is truly messed when you see certain things happen.Are politicians and public officials totally shameless???

Henry Kissinger once accepted the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of Peace Accords he help to negotiate at the end of the Vietnam War.Here is a man who had helped to devastate Vietnam in order to defeat the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. The man is totally shameless.

More recently,Tony Blair has accepted the role of Middle East envoy. Our Prime Minister supported the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last year, and he participated in the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003.He and George Bush have created a bloody mass that they cannot control, and are unable to withdraw from.Yet Blair believes that he can bring something to the table which will secure peace between Israel and the Arabs. The vanity of the man!

Now we hear from his loyal spin doctor that Blair was the only member of the cabinet who had no doubts about the war.He was a true believer. He was no poodle, he rode side saddle with George Bush all the way to Baghdad.Despite this, the Cabinet voted to invade a sovereign country that had not threatened or attacked us.
Have these people no shame at all?Have they no conscience? Only two chose to resig, Robin Cook and Clare Short.

Spitting Image does not need to come back. Our politicians are living proof that satire is truly dead.

It's that time of year again.The Harry Potter bandwagon has rolled into town as the latest film hits ours screens.

I have never read a Harry Potter book, and I never will.However, I have bought a couple for my nephew,as they are popular books for children.

I have to say that JK Rowling deserves total respect.Here is someone that has become a success through sheer talent.She is seriously minted, and she has balls of titanium! Who else would stand her ground to Hollywood with regard to which actor would play Harry Potter?She knew that Harry Potter was a British character and no goddamn Yank was going to play him.Respect to the max!

This is a woman who was once in receipt of benefit as a single mother and was working in a cafe.

On top of that, she is never trying to prove that she is a superwoman like some some pop stars who want to act/model/design clothes and direct movies.Victoria Beckham who was blessed with zero talent is the polar opposite.Her skill is solely to appear in the papers in the latest outfit.She is the British version of Paris Hilton.No matter how ridiculous she is, the media still seem obsessed with her.

For those people who think that appearing in a reality TV show will guarantee fame and wealth.Think again.

Talent will win in the end.