We should be helping each other on both sides of the Atlantic, rather than sneering across it.

On her first foray outside the US as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who flies to London today, says she is bringing Europe a message stressing the importance of alliances and diplomacy at a moment of opportunity in Iraq and the Middle East peace process.

Two media leaks to answer the same question: in the face of danger, do we choose freedom or security?

Even now, most of us cannot answer the simple question, "Should Tony Blair win or lose?"

A review of Josef Joffe's Uberpower.

There will always be anti-Americanism in Europe. On gun control, the death penalty, genetically modified foods, the size of the state and the role of religion, the two continents are at loggerheads. But there is no point in exacerbating the split with my-way-or-the-highway rhetoric.

A new consensus is emerging in Washington, and it is Eurosceptical.

NATO can remain the bedrock of our common security, and we can both use it as a toolbox for those actions that the other side does not object to, but feels no inclination to get involved in.