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Category: Politics

  • A politician’s arrogance or ignorance

    Here’s an extraordinary tale from Robin Wauters of a prominent politician’s cavalier attitude to public funds and contempt for people’s opinions. As described by Robin, the story is about Belgian Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem, pictured above, whose recent…

  • Change the game to suit the player

    There’s talk that Barack Obama will have to give up doing email once he moves in to the Oval Office. […] The US president-elect is likely to give it up, aides told the New York Times, because transparency laws would…

  • Is this the voice of Kevin Rudd?

    If this really is Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who is the author of this Twitter account in his name, started yesterday, that would surely make him the first leader of a major country who twitters. Is it Mr Rudd…

  • Winds of change fan Obama’s high expectations

    Since Barack Obama won the US presidential election last week, warm goodwill around the world towards the President-elect (and, I’d argue, towards the USA in general) is undiminished; if anything, it’s increasing. You can read the opinions of political analysts,…

  • The Obama landslide

    At least, a landslide is what happened in The Economist’s Global Electoral College which closed last week: Barack Obama has won at least one election by a landslide. Voters in The Economist’s Global Electoral College favoured the Democratic candidate over…