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The Brits still think we are being too tough on BP: The crisis engulfing BP has plumbed new depths as President Obama bullied the company into depositing £13.5billion into a fund to settle compensation claims for the calamitous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Bullied? Sorry, but BP has been doing the bullying by giving victims […]

It looks like the U.K. has a “to big to fail” problem also, except this time it’s in the oil industry: In that atmosphere, the stream of condemnations from Washington has stirred a protective backlash, even in this closest of American allies. Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, said Thursday that he was worried […]