The Plashing Vole

I rather enjoyed President Obama's inaugural speech yesterday - a masterpiece of liberal rhetoric designed to tickle the political G-spo...

A while back, I joked on Twitter that the Daily Mail' s paedophilic tendencies (look out for 'all grown up', which means 'ev...

Excellent photo by Justin Sullivan OK. My all-purpose Reckon on the election. Overall result: generally good. Obama's electoral c...

Your Republican candidates: 1. Mitt Romney - billionaire who claims the Republicans are about looking after the 'little guy'. Belie...

This woman is supposedly a serious politician in the US (via Doonesbury): "He personally told Muslims he is a Muslim. Read his lips....

Typically, the state of US (and British) media is so degenerate that they'd rather talk about me than discuss Obama's successful re-...

The Guardian points out that Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged has rocketed to the top of the bestseller charts in this recessionary time. I...

I'm feeling seriously rough today - swimming didn't help - and I've got a big pile of marking to do. Or rather, I should have, b...

Obama? Is that you? Stick around for some useful advice! Welcome too to those faithful readers in Sweden, Italy, Harvard, Canada, Trumbauers...

Ie - gallwn ni! (Or 'Yes, We Can', in Welsh).

Cynical Ben has pointed out in the comments to the previous entry that I was overly negative about Obama's speech, which you can read he...

Obama's just finished his speech. Obviously it contained all the usual stuff about the greatest nation on earth, and all his brilliant t...

At 11.30 a.m. (US time), Joe Biden takes the oath of office as vice-president. So at least Cheney's out of the way, but Bush is still Pr...

According to the Guardian  (though I can't find the link right now), Obama is preparing for office by reading Lincoln , but the journali...

So it's true . Hillary went to see Obama in Chicago to discuss a job - perhaps as Secretary of State. It might be a good move - foreign ...

Most of the newspapers, as you'd expect, are running with the US elections on the front page, though the Express  concentrates on the as...

The election's over. Obama won. Or rather, the election isn't over but he's won the Presidency. What's important now is gett...

I follow the US election statistics on the Guardian 's round-up page, but an article today  suggests that if you really want to get into...