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Telegraph - Blair? Once a lawyer, always a lawyer… By Mark Steyn

If I were to make a general observation about the differences between the American and British executives, it would be this: a British Prime Minister with a majority in the House of Commons can do what he wants at home - abolish the Upper House of the national legislature and ancient offices of state that predate his; install toytown parliaments of arbitrarily varying powers in his Celtic realms and divide England into meaningless invented “regions” - but overseas he’s far more circumscribed; conversely, a US President can’t abolish the Senate or merge New Hampshire and Vermont into the Metropolitan County of Clwyd, but if he decides to stick it to some genocidal nutter halfway around the world he doesn’t have to worry he’ll be tied up in the UN dictators’ small-claims court for the next decade. On the whole, I prefer a system which gives the head of government limited powers over Mrs Scroggins at 37 Acacia Gardens but a wide degree of latitude when it comes to President Sy Kottik of Hoogivsadam.

If that isn’t the funniest thing you read today, I’ll eat my hat. Read the whole thing, etc.