Today’s leak of the Republican part election platform – the closest thing we ever get here to the manifestos published in the UK – is both revealing and far from shocking. At its core it is a radical right wing document that seeks to undo the American social contract in place since the 1930’s and […]

Wow. I think it’s fair to say that the US economy is firmly adrift. If it’s possible, that is, to be adrift firmly. I have ignored the news for two weeks only to return and discover that nothing has changed. The same malaise. The same lack of leadership. The same problems. And the same intractable […]