Yesterday we got the (Manchester) Guardian

Which was interesting and not entirely useless. It did have an awful column (almost a page long--I didn't recognize the author's name and can't remember it) on the occasion of the Hiroshima anniversary, but it also had Anne Applebaum's excellent rememberance of Alexandr Soltshenitsyn and a sensible editoral on Iran. The day after the WSJ scoop, it also reported on Sadr's apparent strategy shift in Iraq. Still, giving the better part of an opinion page to such a terribly one-sided, anti-American and anti-Israel diatribe is a bad sign. But we'll get it again, some time, just to get a better sense, just to be on firmer ground to criticize, just in case.