Everyone has weighed in on Bush and Blair's inadvertently overheard conversation, but I'd like to clarify just one thing: struggling to put a positive spin on things, Labour MP Denis McShane asserts that "Yo, Blair" is the Amercian equivalent of a friendly "Wotcha mate". No. A friendly salutation between equals (though at the risk of making the G8 conference sound like the remake of Saturday Night Fever) would be "Yo, Tony! The de haut en bas "Yo, Blair" is how the quarterback addresses the waterboy - a team member, but very much a junior one.

If Bill Clinton was the first Black president - so dubbed by African-Americans - this salutation and the immortal reduction of a complicated international situation to "what they need to do is get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's all over" reveals Bush to be the first frat boy Wigga president. Doubtless after the microphone was turned off he added "that Merkel bitch is hot!"

 Meanwhile, genuine boy from the 'hood Lethal Bizzle had some tips for Bush to make his street talk sound more authentic, not to mention more constructive. "He could put it 'yo, what's good. Could you allow with the bombing ting, cos you lot are necking the place right now'."

For a more touching view of the Bush-Blair relationship - and proof that broadband is God' gift to satirists - you can't beat YouTube.