Oh, really? Skipping over the fact that Dubya first sat around a Florida elementary school with a blank stare on his face and then fled to a Louisiana airfield thence to a safer hideout at a North Dakota air base before working up the courage to return to Washington, DC, national security czarina Dr. Condoleezza Rice gets indignant (See: "high dudgeon," Acting 101) over "60 Minutes" revelations:

Writing in the Washington Post, she said Mr Bush had acted swiftly after the attacks to secure the country. BBC

Brits run a tighter ship: In America we privately admonish doctors for amputating the wrong foot. The English are stricter:

Dr Terence Hope, 57, a consultant at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, was sent home on full pay last Wednesday.

He is alleged to have taken an extra helping of croutons without paying for them, according to the Daily Mail. BBC