David Cameron's big American adventure

The PR machine in Downing Street was beside itself with joy at David and Samantha Cameron's visit to the US last week, with the "love-in" between Barack Obama and the Prime Minister surpassing Mr Cameron's other bromance, with Nick Clegg, and some even drawing excitable comparisons between Roosevelt and Churchill.

There are events in the affairs of states, and statesmen, that cry out to be recorded. This was one such.

Here, John Rentoul and Jane Merrick see the week's family-album moments through Dave's lilac-tinted spectacles.