British Airlines cabin crew have gone out on a five day strike. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that England has fewer strikes when there is a Labor Government in charge. Why that is, I only can guess. Maybe the unions don't want to cause trouble for their favorite party, and the Tories, the representative of management, deserves to have trouble. I know, sometimes I try to make serious things simple, and I know that simplicity often skips over the flaws in many arguments, as complexity often covers over flaws with dense and not so deep layers of words.

Anyway, I am here in America with no plans to fly to Britain or to fly on British Airlines. I do watch the BBC in America, the Prime Minister's questions in  House of Commons on C-Span. I check out the news on the ITN news channel via the Internet. I followed the recent British election. Yes, I rooted for Gordon Brown. When he went down, I said: There goes England.