US Elections For Dummies
As we approach another US Presidential election, increasing numbers of non-Americans are watching proceedings with great interest; however, the US electoral system is a strange thing, and many...
View ArticleA Message From America’s Elderly
Some election LOLz: An important message from the generation that remembers a time when elections weren’t run by corporations and rigged by Republicans.
View ArticleElection 2012: America’s Tipping Point?
America has two broad histories: what happened, and what Americans think happened. America’s brutal history is hard to square with its talk of liberty and equality, but the schizophrenic nation somehow...
View ArticleSyria: We’re Not the good Guys
It’s too easy to be cynical about politics and politicians, and so when something out of the ordinary happens, we often dismiss it. This week’s British parliamentary vote against joining an American...
View ArticleMandela and Morons
Growing up in the political hotbed of 1980s Cold War London, I found myself among interesting people. The African National Congress, after being banned in the 1950s, had set up a leadership-in-exile,...
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