Next week, weather permitting, Americans will go to the ballot to choose between an unpopular Democratic president and an uninspiring Republican challenger. The 2012 US election may have become more exciting in recent weeks — the polls indicate a tense finish — but that fundamental quandary remains. President Obama, the great liberal hope of four
Fraser Nelson British politicians have long dreamt of regulating the press, but have always been hampered by the basic point that the press isn’t theirs to regulate. Only now, with the industry on its knees, do the enemies of press freedom feel able to strike. Their hope is to appoint a press watchdog who would
Judy Finnigan tells us which Dane she’d take on holiday, which book she found in her mother’s bedside drawer and which book had better be on Richard Madeley’s reading list. Eloise by Judy Finnigan is published by Sphere. She tweets @judyfinnigan. 1). What are you reading at the moment? I’m currently re-reading American Wife, by
‘So the flood-defence funding was cut, then?’
‘I think you’re right — it does make you look younger.’
‘We tend not to watch TV unless it’s an old film.’
‘So I was here and the arms lobby was over there…’
‘I wonder if we could use your loo?’
‘How would you deal with Prince Charles?
‘I found out he was mating for life with someone else behind my back.’
‘Me, too. I can remember exactly where I was when I heard that President Lincoln had been shot.’
‘Me, too. I can remember exactly where I was when I heard that President Lincoln had been shot.’
‘And that, in its simplest form, is the lowest energy tariff currently available.’
‘Me too. I thought coming as Jimmy Savile would be a really funny and original idea.’
