Just a quick few links to some interesting comment pieces in today's Guardian. Matthew Engel identifies a possible reason for why the current wave of anti-French propaganda is not being applied to Germany:

The reason is harder to get at. The one thing we do know is that the change came at the very end of February, immediately after a visit to Washington by Angela Merkel, the German opposition leader, who was granted an A-list schedule, seeing just about everyone who matters except the president himself. Her public statements were strongly pro-American; privately, it is thought, she told Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice to back off, because the more they attacked the chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, the more they strengthened him politically. There are no comparable political divisions in France.

Also, George Monbiot has a good article on the Geneva Convention and the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Zoe Williams has a fun time trying to resign from the Labour Party. I hadn't even known she was a member of the Labour Party, but now I think I like her even more. Did I ever mention I had an email from her a few weeks ago?