OVER THE POND

Catching a plane today to London. The flight will give me a chance to catch up on my correspondence – I’m 200 emails behind. I’ll be posting regularly from over there, so they might have an Anglo tinge. I’m doing a New York Times Magazine story on the newish Conservative Party leader in Britain, William Hague, who happens to be an old college friend of mine. He’ll be up against Blair in May, in all likelihood. I’ll be five hours ahead so don’t worry if I seem to be posting pieces in the middle of the night. Not that I don’t do that already. But this time, I’ll have an excuse.