As I said on Newsnight on Friday, Obama is attacking BP, not Britain.   He’s reacting exactly as we would if an American oil rig had blown up in the North Sea and a huge oil slick expanding by 40,000 barrels a day (8 times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989) was devastating the whole coastline of south-east England.   The Daily Mail telling Cameron to “stand up for Britain” jars as usual with its shrill and false patriotism, wholly ignoring BP’s reckless and dangerous safety record over the years. Continue reading →