Hope, at long last
October 11th, 2005
Mathew Gross: “Suddenly, with just a few more people putting it together, I can see the other side — the light at the end of the tunnel — and I start to think we might make it out of this alive. All the problems still stand, but if we could have someone, anyone other than this guy at the helm, we might make it.”
The different way of US politics
October 11th, 2005
Tom Runnacles: “I see nothing in the faux-populist moralism of the GOP that would fly at all in the UK. It’s evident that amongst very many Tories, this pretty basic message has still not been fully assimilated. Blimpishness amongst the Conservatives is an important part of their problem; blimpishness with a Texan swagger is highly unlikely to be any kind of solution.”