How much are Britain and the USA in love?

Does a partnership trump a relationship? How many of each is a kinship worth?

Michael Scherer, of Time magazine’s Swampland blog, has been bemused at British press obsession with Obama’s omission of the phrase ‘special relationship’ last month. Now he is bemused by the proliferation of metaphors used in the President’s joint press conference with Gordon Brown today.

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