more specialness

However, it was clear that the US decision to negotiate the resettlement of the four Chinese Muslim Uighurs with Bermuda's prime minister without informing London was a blow to British claims to have a "special relationship" with Washington. It is also an embarrassing reminder of Britain's residual status as a colonial power.

Well if the "special relationship" recovered from the US decision to invade Grenada without so much as a by your leave, then it can recover from this. It’s funny how the SR words always seem to appear in the same sentence as “a blow to…” But the whole nonsense goes on and on, foreign policy as security blanket.

Comments

[Alex]

Not different. Special!

[NomadUK]

It's the same special relationship of a whore to her pimp, or of a battered wife to her drunken husband.