The steady, growing hostility towards BP by Americans is driven partly by BP’s failure to understand the American dream.   While Britain’s tendency is to play down and minimise fuss, Americans like big crises to be solved by big heroes.  It is impossible to underestimate how the power of this narrative feeds into the making of American policy.  It is muddle through against resolution; Full Monty against Independence Day; Midsomers Murders against Dirty Harry.

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