The rise of the Tea Party in America has presented lefties and liberals with more than two brain cells to rub together on both sides of the Atlantic with a problem. Picking a facepalm of the week just got a whole lot harder. Following the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, Republican senator Jon Kyl [...]
Whilst I am always in favour of a ‘re-politicising’ of politics, or a reclamation of politics as an ideological entity rather than a form of droll, pseudo-scientific administration, some of the scenes in the USA this week, with Republican Party activists actively promoting a situation which is bordering on civil disorder in protest at Obama’s [...]
America has always occupied a confused place in the global consciousness. It’s the land of McCarthy and Martin Luther King. The land of Hollywood dreams and Bible Belt nightmares. The land of apple pie and imperialism. That land of the free and home of the brave built by landless slaves in the home of Indian [...]
