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Tony Blair passed a heavy baton to Bush's new best friend in Old Europe.

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Ahmadinejad released the 15 captured British sailors saying,  "They will be set free as a gift from the people of Iran to the people
of Britain."

It was an Easter present.

"On the occasion of the birthday of the great prophet (Muhammad) …
and for the occasion of the passing of Christ, I say the Islamic
Republic government and the Iranian people — with all powers and legal
right to put the soldiers on trial — forgave those 15,"

He gave the lone female sailor, Faye Turney, an outfit with easter bonnet.  The men were given new suits just like his.  Come to think about it they're out of uniform.  Enemy combatants out of uniform aren't entitled to Geneva Convention protection.  Lucky he didn't send them to Gitmo.

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Scotland Yard has concluded a 3 year investigation into the death of Princess Diana.  No conspiracies (her driver was drunk), although U.S. intelligence did bug her phone.

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The British used electronic eavesdropping and money tracking to bust the plane plot.  Just the programs that have been criticized in the U.S. for violating civil liberties.

In a Joseph Rago Wall Street Journal article over the weekend Norman Podhoretz complains about poor intelligence in Iraq.

"You cannot fight a revanchist insurgency and certainly not one that uses terrorist tactics without good intelligence . . . and you can only get that kind of intelligence by squeezing it out of prisoners…the domestic opposition and the international community, unhappily, are "defining torture down. The things they're calling 'torture' now have never been and have no business being considered torture."

Present your waterboarding pass at the gate.

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After a 20 mile swim up the Thames River, a Bottlnose Whale arrived in London last week. The purpose of the whale's visit was undetermined. It attracted world wide curiosity. Scientists suspect the event was either an omen or the whale became deranged and believed itself to be a salmon. The travelogue had an unhappy ending when the visitor perished after being hoisted on a barge for a return trip to the sea.