
From June the London Times will be published in New York (it's a wrench to insert 'London'). My theory is that the UK and the US will eventually approach a political merger to match the cultural merger. Anyway, the New York Times' palatial new hq is an omen that this confederacy of dunces may seek re-structuring by a consortium of Als - Gore, Franken , Quaeda and the Saudi squillionaire, Waleed. There'd be no need to change its editorial line or news management.