How to fiddle an election
It was an almost invisible event. Far away from the high-profile politics of Westminster, in the pebble-dash suburbs of north London, in a cramped and over-heated room on the first floor of Barnet...
View ArticleVote-rigging is easy
The whole world threw up its hands in horror at the electoral malpractice which was revealed in Florida in the long harsh climax to last November's presidential election. As though election-rigging...
View ArticleStephen Harper – the very model of a modern politician (and rogue)
An unkind cartoon this summer showed the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, kneeling before the statue of another politician, asking “What now, O Great One?” That in itself would not be unkind....
View ArticleWhy so many liars and hypocrites end up in the White House
Evelyn Waugh described the character of Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited like this: “He isn’t a real person at all. He’s just a few faculties of a man, highly developed.” Mr Mottram had the makings...
View ArticlePower passes to the powerful
Republican hopeful David Karnes stood up at the state fair in Nebraska to launch his campaign for election to the US Senate and effectively smacked himself in the face. “We need fewer farmers at this...
View ArticleRunning an election on dirty tricks
The man most likely to become the next President of the United States, Michael Dukakis, has spent much of the last two weeks denying that he has ever been treated for mental illness. This raises two...
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