The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

My business is the analytical framework.