When Richard Nixon went up on national TV following the announcement that he was under investigation for Watergate, he uttered the infamous line: “I am not a crook”.
And everyone instantly, regardless of their opinion on the affair, involuntarily thought of him as a crook. According to the linguist (hold in here, this is actually quite [...]
From the Democratic debate in New Hampshire last night, it’s now clear that the contest between the candidates has effectively come down to two key characteristics which, in 2008 will matter the most to voters. These are experience and change. The third, electability, is an equally important issue likely to be on the minds of [...]
…Jon Ston, you’re forgetting that Hitler, upon gaining power and forcing through the Enabling Act granting him ‘emergency powers’ as a dictator, never really did so with anything more than a slim popular mandate. His rise had just as much to do with backstage intrigue and underhanded deals as with political support. Consequently, whilst controlling [...]
There’s a breathless hush on the freeway tonight
as yesterday’s tomorrows file along the freshly baked concrete columns
and the chainlink fence flutters in the breeze adorned with the flowers
of those that now lay beside it.
And beyond it out in the harbour
Jerusalem’s lights still twinkle
as they have always done
freedom, liberty and hope
for everyone-
twinkle twinkle little star, rest [...]
No issue exposes the deep divisions in the American political landscape like that of abortion. Ever since the handing down of Roe vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court in 1973, enshrining a woman’s right to abortion, the defence or assault of this historic decision has been cast as a major goal of both sides [...]
Two years on from the atrocities of September 11, and the unveiling of George Bush’s ‘war on terror’, is the World a safer place? The death of 3,000 Americans has resulted in the deaths of hundreds more Americans in armed conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq and the death and injury of millions of civilians all [...]
