Guest post by Christos Loutradis Hands up, who knew there’s an election in Greece tomorrow? The snap election triggered by unpopular conservative Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis seeking a new mandate for his ailing New Democracy party to tackle the economy has received little coverage in the UK. But is the all but certain victory of [...]
Gordon Brown is far more popular in the rest of the world than he is in his own country. Is it time for constitutional reform? Gordon Brown won the world statesman of the year award last week. I know. I’m as surprised as you. The prime minister was honoured for his leadership on the economic [...]
I’m a Guardian reader. Middle-class, well educated, long-haired and liberal, I don’t exactly dispel the stereotypes associated with the paper whose readers think they ought to run the country. Nor, as one of those lefty, anti-war, environmentalist types who grew up worrying about the state of the world, should it come as any surprise that [...]
