After glazing through last nights debate and starting to get slightly political recently, I have to say I’m really disappointed with our politics in the UK. We have two main parties who constantly engage in a slagging match and the ones that annoy me the most with their petty slander are the Conservatives. Recently the…
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So much has happened in the world recently, and unfortunately the best part when George Bush got shoes thrown at him today in Iraq (see the YouTube video below) didn’t work out so well and missed his head. Bush was his usual smug self pleased to have dodged the shoes and make a joke of…
You know you’re back in the US when people don’t understand you saying “tomato” anymore… I got back yesterday to Baltimore after my week home in the UK and will be here for another 3 weeks. However I have noticed some disturbing developments in the US Democratic Primaries since I’ve been away. Its getting nasty!…
Even though I am a UK citizen (or as I prefer to call myself a citizen of the world!), I, like millions of other people around the world, take an interest in US politics. The reason is pretty obvious, as Bush has shown with his devastating foreign policies, America is the only country in the…
Finally! The end of a bad chapter, and the beginning of a new Obama era! Today Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America, and literally millions (maybe Billions), including myself, watched it on TV around the world. Obama seems to not only be hope for the people of…
After months of waiting and speculation, my favourite to win the US elections, Barack Obama, HAS WON!! I’ve been following him closely since I was working in the US (Baltimore, MD) earlier this year and my co-worker Sri, who was one of his biggest supporters in Seattle, kept going on about him and how great…
As I mentioned in a previous blog, I’ve been getting caught up in US politics the last couple of months as the primaries go on around me. Yesterday I actually had a chance to see Obama speak live in front of 17,000 people at the Baltimore Arena, 2 blocks away from where I work. The…