The Observer | Euan Ferguson and One Million

Lesley Taylor, a constitutional law lecturer who’s lived across here for 29 years, holding a forlorn placard reading ‘American against the war.’ Why only one? ‘I don’t know any other Americans here. In the Eighties here I saw a lot of anti-American resentment, and now it’s back. I accept that the perception of George W. Bush has something to do with this, but still… these are the same people the thinking middle-classes, who were so shocked and honestly sympathetic after September 11: how can they turn so nasty so quickly?

And here, in the cold midwestern wastes of America, I feel a sensation that I recognize as hope…