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USE Never, USA Ever

USA Never, USA Ever

The 2005 Watson Chair Lecture

USE Never, USA Ever

By Peter Jay

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A startling conclusion drawn from a thoughtful analysis of European and American developments over the last sixty years from a clearly defined perspective - Euro-sceptic and Americaphile.

Quotes from the lecture:

 I address myself to those like myself who abominate modern trends in American political culture and who ask themselves what should that mean for British foreign policy and for Britain's role in future Atlantic relationships.
Britain's interests, the interests that is of its citizens in safety, peace and prosperity, can never be finally invested in an enterprise which would take away for ever the ability of our own elected government to make final decisions in an unknowable future about which way Britain should go and on what side its weight, be it great or small, should be thrown. If history teaches us anything at all, it is the capacity of the future to defy expectations and to undermine the most confident assumptions.
Between Britain and the United States there exists at a level quite different from and more profound than routine diplomatic and political relations between governments a community of values, of personal connections and of mutual regard on which, when the chips are down, greater reliance can be placed than on any other guarantee of survival.