3 Britons indicted in terror plot is the headline in today’s Washington Times.

The accused are not Britons at all, of course, but United Kingdom citizens of Muslim ancestry: Dhiren Barot, Nadeem Tarmohamed and Qaisar Shaffi.

Of course, they may have been born in Britain (one of them was nicknamed “Esa al-Britani),” but even so the headline should read “Three Muslims Indicted In Terror Plot” to convey more useful information.

Howard Sutherland asks us if this was what Tony Blair meant by “New Britain.” (Blair’s old election slogan was “New Labour, New Britain.”) I said I thought New Britain was a town in Connecticut, which was now 26.8 % Hispanic.