Danny Alexander MP writes… Trident: The UK’s voice on an international issue
I believe Trident is the UK’s last, unreformed bastion of Cold War thinking. And I believe we can adapt our nuclear deterrent to the threats of the 21st century by ending 24-hour patrols when we don’t...
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If Alistair Cooke reported the Obamacare standoff: “A real shutdown… not...
There are voices from history that cannot be forgotten. Among them is that of Alistair Cooke, a Brit who understood America like no other. There are times when I really miss Alistair. He had a unique...
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The Independent View: Could the USA’s November mid-term elections herald the...
The November mid-term elections in the United States will be vital for the future of the Democratic Party, as it not only seeks to retain its control of the Senate, but possibly reclaim the House of...
View ArticleOpinion: Should Britain copy Obama’s capital gains proposals?
View image | gettyimages.com President Obama has announced proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy and help those on lower incomes (such as by boosting tax credits). The plans include reforms to...
View ArticleVideo: Obama’s hilarious White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech
Sad that there’s only one of these left now. He really is a class act and he knows how to laugh at himself. Enjoy. My favourite was the one about his friend who used to make millions of dollars and is...
View ArticleSaturday humour: Who is best at reading mean tweets about themselves?
Embed from Getty Images Alex Salmond got a few headlines this week when Iain Dale announced that he would be hosting a weekly half hour phone in with the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesperson Alex...
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The happiest photo of the week
Official White House photo by Lawrence Jackson. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet 106-Year-Old Virginia McLaurin during a photo line in the Blue Room of the White House prior...
View ArticleA morning at the White House
Embed from Getty Images A frisson of expectation sweeps the crowd as the tannoy crackles to life and the announcer declares “Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States.” The honour guard...
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What the Liberal Democrats could learn from Obama, Sanders and Trudeau
As a young American woman who has interned in the Canadian Parliament, volunteered for American campaigns and is now working in the British Parliament, it has been interesting following the 2015...
View ArticleMust-see TV series: Inside Obama’s White House
Embed from Getty Images While I was on holiday, BBC 2 sneaked out the first episode of a fantastic series: Inside Obama’s White House. You can currently watch the first three episodes of the series...
View ArticleWATCH: Obama’s final White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Obama’s rocked all of his 8 speeches at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This year is full of occasions that will be his last in the White House. It took me a while to warm to him, but he’s...
View ArticleObama slow jams the news – the coolest of the cool?
There are not many politicians who could pull this off… * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist. As part of the Liberal Democrat Voice team he helps with photos and moderation on the site, as well...
View ArticleFarron: Labour make a divided and divisive government look half competent
So, President Obama and his former campaign adviser David Axelrod were chewing the fat about the Labour Party and whether the Democrats could go the same way. Of course, Axelrod knows Labour well, as...
View ArticleLibLink: Mark Pack’s five lessons from the US election
I’ve long suspected that the Voice’s Mark Pack doesn’t need to sleep and his clear thinking after a long electoral night kind of backs up my theory. As my neural pathways crumble from lack of sleep, he...
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Opinion: US Elections – I’m not one to gloat, but….
I am still musing on what a wonderful night it was on Tuesday into Wednesday. I stayed up all night until I finally threw in the towel at 6.45am. It was a bit tedious at first, but it got really...
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Romney’s polling day technology meltdown: Orca
The usual post-electoral defeat search for explanations and people to blame has an added edge for the Republicans after Mitt Romney’s defeat earlier this month. Not only did Romney lose, he lost in all...
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What does the data show about the Obama campaign’s use of data?
So far, there has been a weird paradox at the heart of the coverage about the Obama 2012 campaign machine. On the one hand we’re all meant to be impressed by how it was based on data and analysis,...
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The Independent View: A reply to Mark Pack from Obama’s Director of Data
The Crystal Ball chart blogged by Mark Pack highlights the interesting cases of Alaska and Utah. These outliers make sense given the dynamics of the race (the large Mormon population in UT provided a...
View ArticleThe Eurosceptic tide is turning. Lib Dems must be in the vanguard
We have become used in recent months to unrelentingly bad news about our relationship with Europe. ‘UKIP now the third party’, ‘Majority would say no to EU’ and ‘UK heads for the Brexit’ have become...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg presents… President Obama: “I’m Daniel Day-Lewis.”
The 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the annual event which disproves any notion the Americans can’t do irony… (Watch it on YouTube here.) And here’s the full 20 minute Obama routine: (Watch it...
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