They're generally a left wing paper, the US is generally perceived as pretty right wing in politics and economics. Plus there's been the whole Snowden affair recently.

Brits in general seem to be on a bit of a downswing in terms of how amazing we think you are. Right now it's pegged somewhere around "you've got as many problems as the rest of us" where before ~y2k we thought the US was some sort of magical fairyland where everything was made of candy.