The World After Bush

> This election has been a wonderful example of how democracies can > renew themselves. writes James Forsyth as The Spectator's CoffeeHouse prepares to blog through election night...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/11/record-turnout-by-us-standards.html

The global civil society campaign Avaaz and democracy campaigners in Burma believe they have found a pressure point on the Burmese Junta, which keeps the democratically elected leader Aung Sung S...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-help-burmas-democrats.html

Time's Joe Klein has a significant interview with Barack Obama. It includes a significant development in his thinking on Afghanistan. > Actually, Obama and Petraeus seem to be thinking...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-and-mccain-would-talk-to-taliban.html

Trading in political futures on the leading InTrade market gives Obama an 84% chance of the White House, against 16% of McCain. Check out the graphs - and notice how late the Obama surge broke....

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-future-market-was-rigged.html

About to catch the Eurostar to speak to the Flemish Social Democrats' conference in Brussels tomorrow morning. This could also be a chance to investigate a mysterious quirk in yesterday's inter...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/belgians-for-dubya.html

Has the Nobel prize lost its glitter?, the Observer asked this week. Like the rest of its panel , I didn't think so. There are good tributes to this year's peace prize winner Martti Ahtisaari fr...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/deserved-nobel.html

And that's about as much good news as can be found for the Republican candidate right now. McCain is still within 6 points in RealClearPolitics' poll of polls , but the InTrade futures market no...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-may-take-macedonia.html

The debate was a no-score bore, though voters gave it to Obama . Wonkette has a fascinating review and full C-Span video showing Obama excelling at retail politics, Clinton-style (after being s...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-debate-it-was-no-contest.html

Boring Barack Obama. And Boring John McCain. And boring, useless Tom Brokaw, wittering on about the clock but doing nothing useful as a moderator, though in all fairness that much exalted Town Ha...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/boring-boring-barack-obama.html

I couldn't quite stay up for the VP debate in St Louis (full transcript ), but was grateful for our two year old daughter waking us up at 6am so I could watch the recording as live before hearing...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-unqualified-but-still-alive.html

Karl Rove asked that of Howard Dean's surge last time around. Joe Klein contrasts the Obama and McCain temperaments in an excellent Time column. McCain, playing the underdog, is getting angri...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-was-last-time-america-elected.html

The House of Representatives vote to reject the $700 billion bailout, by 228 votes to 205 , has sent shockwaves through the financial markets, hitting London this morning following the dramatic f...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/09/washingtons-blame-game.html

If there was no clear winner, most people seem to have ended the night thinking pretty much what they did when they began. A debate transcript is available from RealClearPolitics. One of the mo...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/09/debate-verdicts-round-up-few-minds.html

There was no great dramatic moment, certainly no knockout blow, in a close fought and reasonably substantive opening Presidential candidate's debate. John McCain began shakily on the economic c...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-presidential-debate-mccain-snark.html

It's game on. John McCain is going to turn up for the first Presidential debate. Time has put together a good package of 10 of the most memorable debate moments . The Obama campaign has put out...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/09/great-debate-moments.html

The Fabians have a new blog called Next Left, to which I will be contributing regularly. Its at www.nextleft.org/

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/09/next-left.html

Over at Liberal Conspiracy, Sunny Hundal thinks Obama needs to fight the culture wars , in response to the Palin nomination. I disagree . The Democrats should avoid being baited from the electi...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/09/polarising-america.html

Our prime minister is a fan of reality television, seeing in the X-Factor a metaphor for unlocking talent. So how he must have thrilled to the Democracy Idol show which has gripped America this p...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/07/fabian-review-column-obama-factor.html

Perhaps the most striking passage in Barack Obama's Berlin speech was the prominence he gave to his call for the goal of a world without nuclear weapons > This is the moment when we must...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/07/nuclear-free-world.html

It may not have been at the Brandenburg Gate. But the genuine Obamamania among Berliners means that the keynote moment of the Obama European tour will have generated the right Kennedyesque images...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-in-berlin.html

As Obamamania comes to Europe, the main focus is on what the Democrat nominee will say about US foreign policy and the future of the transatlantic relationship, and how it will affect the electio...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-search-of-inspiration-could-britain.html

It's been a really tough few time for Britain's Labour government, with defeats in the local elections, the election for London Mayor and by-elections. Many are looking enviously at the energy in...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-could-labour-learn-from-america.html

After rather a long hiatus, I'm going to start reblogging here. Obama seems well placed for the General Election race, with the Obama-Clinton reconciliation going as well or better than could b...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/07/reblogging.html

You are a Democrat on the brink of your party's Presidential nomination, as long as you can calm down any late fears about electability. Which previous Democratic Presidential nominees would you ...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-as-mcgovern.html

One of the themes of the Democrat primary has been 'the movement against the machine'. A Time Magazine piece back in the Ohio primary did a good job at capturing the two campaigns different phil...

http://worldafterbush.blogspot.com/2008/04/organising-movement.html