The spin of the Obama administration is as breathtaking as is US arrogance!

Not content with attempting to make a villain of BP over the Gulf oil spill in a vain attempt to deflect attention away from his own disastrous presidential performance, as I reported in June, Barak Obama has now attempted another spin trick worthy of even the ghastly Tony Blair and his hypocritical and morally bankrupt lieutenant Alistair Campbell.

America’s first mixed race President, when his politically motivated attacks on ‘British’ Petroleum failed to turn the tide of public disapproval of him, decided, instead of listening to the reasons for the disquiet, to launch another smokescreen by questioning whether perhaps BP had influenced the British and Scottish governments into releasing the convicted Lockerbie Bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.

You will recall that on 21 December 1988, Pan Am 103 exploded in mid air over Lockerbie in Scotland killing some 270 people in total, a high percentage of which were US citizens.

Eventually, al-Megrahi was convicted of this atrocity, despite protesting his innocence and with many feeling that the conviction was unsafe due to the amount of conflicting and dubious evidence. He was sentenced to serve life in a Scottish jail.

Then in 2009, he was released on humanitarian grounds due to the fact that Scottish doctors said that he had only a matter of weeks to live given the terminal nature of the cancer he was suffering from.

Many Americans, not least relatives of those slaughtered, were appalled – a feeling that became more intense when al-Megrahi was still alive a year later. This was not always an emotion shared by relatives of the British victims, some of whom seemed to have studied the case more closely and were far less convinced of his guilt.

Nevertheless, as al-Megrahi was convicted in a proper court of law, one can perhaps sympathise with those who thought that he should die in prison given the nature of his crime.

Now enter stage left America’s inept President Obama, who suggests that BP had enlisted Gordon Brown’s corrupt British government to offer the release of al-Megrahi as a sweetener to Colonel Gaddafi in order to land a 900-million-dollar deal with Libya.

Therefore, a wicked British government had colluded with a wicked ‘British’ company (38 per cent US owned against 39 per cent UK owned and boasting more US employees than British by the way) to help a wicked murderer be re-united with his wicked boss Colonel Gaddafi. What a very convenient distraction despite the denials of BP and the British, Scottish and Libyan governments. But who knows the truth? Certainly not me.

So could this at last do the trick and divert attention away from the disastrous economic policy at home and muddled and weak foreign policy abroad? Only time will tell when the November mid-term elections take place and we get a better idea if Obama is only going to do one term. We can but hope.

However, in the meantime, Obama refused to speak of little else and became obsessed by this nasty little plot, convinced that he could unite the American people behind him in a spot of Limey bashing which might make them forget how dissatisfied they were with him.

So the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to hold hearings on the subject and demanded that members of both the previous British and Scottish Governments appeared before them to testify.

Can you imagine if new British Premier David Cameron decided to set up a public inquiry to discover why so many British citizens were killed in New York in 9/11, what part slack US Security played in the tragedy, and ordered members of the then Bush Administration to appear before it? Precisely!

All of America would be up in arms at such an audacious act. So how hypocritical and arrogant to act that way themselves. Once again the Americans have proved themselves to be an insular and, despite their wealth, ignorant people not worthy of the mantle that they picked up from the British as the world’s most powerful nation.

And as for you American guys, those who don’t like Obama anymore, look in the mirror – because it was you who elected him to the office in the first place.

Pity this column doesn’t reach too many Americans – because I did warn you that good oratory might get him the job but that might also mean in practical terms that “Can we do it?” really meant “No I can’t”!

Blair’s book – a journey through 13 years of dishonesty, corruption and social disintegration!

So, having trousered a £5 million advance for the British Legion in attempt to ease his conscience concerning the blood he has on his hands over the invasion of Iraq and perhaps even the death of Dr Kelly, Tony Blair’s autobiography recalling 13 years of incompetence and corruption in government was published on 1 September. Those who cared what new spin this ghastly man might put on the events of this time had waited with bated breath to get their hands on a copy.

Me? No certainly not. I could have told you what would be written and why without even flicking through the pages.

The result is a very dangerous individual who has now attempted to re-write history to portray himself in the best possible way. And he has done it in such a way that that smarmy grin is almost visible on the typed page as he purrs out his story softly just as the dagger is slipped in between the ribs of his old enemy Gordon Brown, among others.

Of course there is nothing new in this. Politicians going back as far as Bismarck and beyond have always sought to get their version of events out on the street in order to justify their actions and elevate their position in history.

The things that drove them to the top in the first place are the same motivations that made them want to cling on to power as long as possible and then be thought of in the best possible light even posthumously. It is of course massive egomania and a deeply sincere and obsessively blind love of themselves.

And of course there is nothing really new in the Blair book either. We all knew for example that Blair found Brown “maddening”. We all knew that he blamed him for blackmailing Blair over the cash for honours crisis rather than himself for allowing the scandal to develop in the first place.

We all knew that he felt that he couldn’t sack Brown as he believed that the Chancellor was less dangerous in the tent and at least pretending to be pissing out, rather than outside and definitely pissing in. We all knew that Blair resented Brown for hounding him from a job that the latter believed was his by right and that Blair had stolen it from him back in 1994 when he won the Labour leadership contest.

We all knew that Blair thought that Brown would make a lousy Prime Minister – even my dog knew that he would. We all knew that Blair had to say Brown was a good Chancellor of the Exchequer, even if he wasn’t, as Blair was Prime Minister at the same time and therefore that would really reflect badly on him.

It was always going to be a case of putting the brightest gloss possible on Britain’s most corrupt, rotten and appallingly incompetent government in modern history. Tony Blair was a fantasy Prime Minister so his autobiography was always going to be a fantasy publication of self-justification, spin and untruths.

However, if Mr Blair had announced that he and Alistair Campbell had actually had Dr Kelly bumped off in order to prevent the truth coming out concerning their outrageously inaccurate dossier about weapons of mass destruction, the book would have become worth reading.

After all a lot of suspicion still surrounds the doctor’s apparent suicide and that dossier that owed its origins to some student’s university thesis which was ‘borrowed’ and then was sexed up by Campbell. Remember, it was eventually presented to the Bush Administration and thus enabled them to go to war with Iraq without feeling the need to obtain a new UN mandate. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives as a result. We might have suspected as much but we certainly did not know it.

Now that would have been pretty sensational and it certainly would have had me rushing out to get myself a copy.

Sarkozy’s expelling of gypsies attracts widespread criticism.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s summer law and order crack down on illegal immigrants, which I commented on last month, has been roundly criticised by the French socialist opposition, his own party, colleagues in the French cabinet, the Catholic Church and even United Nation officials.

All fiercely condemn his orders to the police, who have, as result, closed over a hundred illegal gypsy camps and had over a thousand illegal immigrants deported back to either Romania or Bulgaria.

Comparisons have even been made with the wartime collaborationist Vichy government as passions run high and even the very top of the Sarkozy government feels the strain.

However, Le Petit Bonaparte finds an unusual ally in me. I am not a racist, I do believe in tolerance and the respect of all. I hate discrimination and persecution. However, the French economy is in a mess and is struggling to look after its own. It is not that the deported are gypsies – it is that their presence in France is not legal in the first place. They belong in either Romania or Bulgaria. If Napoleon does nothing the problem will only get worse as more and more illegal immigrants arrive believing that no action will be taken against them. And when that action comes eventually – as of course it must – the upheaval will be much worse and therefore the chance of violent confrontation all the higher.

So, Mon Petit President, stick to your guns. You are growing in stature – with or without your Cuban heeled boots.

Pakistan really didn’t need this cricket scandal.

We have all seen how the recent devastating floods in Pakistan have affected millions of people’s lives. People have died, lost their relatives, homes, belongings and employment. Most were poor to start with and now their misery is complete.

Cricket in Pakistan is the national obsession, just as it is in India. The players, especially those in the national team, are worshipped as if they were gods. Therefore, how tragic is it that some of these gifted few has managed to let their adoring public down so badly in their hour of need. Not only have they suffered a humiliating series defeat to England but are once again embroiled in allegations of cheating.

They have disgraced the whole nation by getting involved in a betting scam designed to defraud bookmakers back in the Indian sub-continent where betting on every aspect of cricket is a national bad habit. The fear of the extent of their corruption is such that recordings of their last 82 tests are now being studied.

Shame on them and shame on the ICC that has ignored the warning signs for far too long. And don’t let those intellectual pigmies of Islam tell you that all corruption begins in the West because here, once again, is absolute proof that it does not.

Cameron congratulations.

Having lost a beloved son called Charles in 1982 and having had the mind saving birth of Jamieson in 1983, I know exactly how David Cameron must feel. His new daughter won’t diminish the loss of his son but, my God, it will help. Enjoy the moment sir.