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Martin Kettle
Hillary’s job application is 600 pages
Clinton’s memoir shows she is fit to be president, but she’s not giving anything away just yet.
What if the Germans had won the first world war?
With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.
US voters are not mad
America is a country of mad people governed by buffoons. That’s the way a lot of Europeans are content to see it, writes <b>Martin Kettle</b>.
Trapped in the Anglosphere, we’ve lost sight of next door
It’s great the internet has engaged us in Australian elections and Alaska, but language has cut Europe from our mental maps.
The challenge ahead
Let’s be clear about this: Barack Obama has achieved an immense and historic victory.
TV debates rarely swing it, but let voters test the timber
The presidency is not won or lost by televised knockabout, but Obama has taken the opportunity to confirm his credentials.
Bush’s power grab
On April 30 the Boston Globe journalist Charlie Savage wrote an article whose contents become more astonishing the more one reads them. Over the past five years, Savage reported,…
A perverse fixation with the Nazi past
The soccer World Cup fills me with dread. I want to look, but also to look away. Not because I don’t like football. I do. Not because I’m fussed about the St George flag. I’m all…
A world-altering speech
If the great history lesson of the 20th century is that socialism does not work, then the watershed event in that tragic enlightenment was the one that took place in Moscow 50…
Peter Pan politics
A crisis? Sure. But which one and whose? As the results sank in on Sunday, the clever men in suits on France’s TV5 reeled off plenty to choose from: a European crisis; a domestic…
A whole new Bush?
Watching and listening to Bush in Brussels this week it was impossible not to see that this is a very different politician from the one who was taped by Doug Wead as he weighed…
What is Bush saying?
Among the half a million demonstrators peacefully thronging the streets of Manhattan last Sunday, the verdict against George W Bush was instantly familiar to any visiting…
Blair must listen or lose
Listening to Tony Blair, you hear the same unvarying judgement of the current state of the nation. Iraq was right. Bush is okay. The security situation is going badly, but it has…
Why Blair fears a Kerry win
If there is one thing that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has never underestimated, it is the importance of an American presidential election in shaping the dynamics of…
When America talks about race, all of us need to listen
When the nine justices who make up the United States supreme court pronounce on a case involving racial issues, it is not just Americans who listen, but nations around the whole…