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President Barack Obama reaches out to all nations with vow to ‘remake America’

January 21st, 2009

A friend emailed Tuesday morning from New York: “In tears already and it hasn’t begun.” Another wrote me that her husband, horrified by reports of crowds in Washington, was “afraid there will be a stampede or something awful”.
Which summed it up, really: the levels of emotion built up in advance of the 2009 presidential inauguration ceremony were so high that some wept, some fainted, and some were paralysed by fear. Read on »


Barack Obama’s victory was inevitable

November 5th, 2008

The maps on the television screens started turning blue as soon as the polls had closed on the East Coast; by midnight, John McCain had conceded the presidency to Barack Obama. But I had known the election result many hours before. Read on »


Why is Vladimir Putin so scared of Georgia?

August 15th, 2008

‘It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” In recent days, this famous Churchillian pronouncement on Russia has echoed through many an analysis. In particular, Vladimir Putin - former Russian president, current Russian prime minister, the man still clearly in charge of the country - has been held up as a great puzzle. Read on »


John McCain and Barack Obama have much in common in presidential race

June 6th, 2008

And now, at last, we’ve got to the interesting part: the race between two candidates seemingly so different from one another that their opposing presidential campaigns can actually be described in large, sweeping metaphors. Read on »


Irrational ambition is Hillary Clinton’s flaw

May 8th, 2008

Are you tired of the US election campaign? Not really sure what they’re arguing about any more? Read on »


Presidential candidacy: race in the US is never black and white

April 4th, 2008

Forty years after the murder of Martin Luther King, the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama has once again led America to search its soul. Read on »


Barack Obama’s ‘day that would never come’

January 5th, 2008

On the day when Barack Obama first entered America’s consciousness I was sitting glumly in the audience. It was the summer of 2004, at the Democratic Convention in Boston. Read on »


Problems in Poland: In Poland you can’t get hold of a Polish plumber

December 12th, 2007

Where have all the plumbers gone? Read on »


Putin is playing a dangerous game

June 5th, 2007

Last week, I found myself in Dom Knigi, the very largest of all the very large Moscow bookstores, staring at the history section. Read on »


Putin will stop at nothing

April 18th, 2007

Dissidents against the authoritarian regime, many of them in London, are raising the stakes. The President’s response is to get even tougher — and to target Britain in his new propaganda war. Read on »


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