They believed it to be in Britain's own self interest, and knew that any other policy was detached from reality.

BBC: Get off the fence, prime minister!

When he had seen her in the center of the road he had thought for an instant she was a ghost, and there was a ghostly detached quality in the way she moved, her lips crimped in that twist of self-criticism he had noticed in the car, when she had slid in beside him.

NEWYORKER: Outage