8th November 2020

 Fireworks. Not just our road but the US too.  An explosion of joy and recriminations about postal votes. I don’t like them either. Years ago, an immigrant work colleague told me how the ‘head’ of local households would fill in a pile of ballot slips because no-one else in the road spoke English! Nevertheless, Biden it is, so now time to plan a new UK:US strategy. My mind goes back to past liaisons. Churchill/Roosevelt, Maggie/Ronnie, and Boris and Donald. But now? Biden needs to think anew. Don’t follow Obama’s post-Brexit ‘back of the queue’ trade policy. Instead, remember the VIPs at the annual July 4th parties at the Regent’s Park US Ambassador’s residence.   Look around and whom do you see? Wall to wall generals, MI6 and GCHQ operatives. Yes, it’s the historic special relationship that counts, Joe, especially in the quest for global peace. As Him Indoors says:  Biden’s wife should be called Laura (laura-biden’)!!