A week in America | 12 December 2024
11/12/2024
This week, Martin looks at what Americans feel about the future, the slaying of a business executive, and one of the nation’s sporting superstars switching sides…
A week in America | 30 August 2024
30/08/2024
This week, Martin packs up his bags and heads back to the US. After having endured the cool British weather this Summer he is expecting things to heat up on the American campaign trail.
A week in America | 30 September 2021
30/09/2021
This week in the U.S. the Moderates and the Progressives have threatened to derail their own President’s plan for a European-style social security safety net, moves to bolster health care coverage for all, and thwart his proposal to invest heavily in climate change, renewable energy, and early years education.
Here’s to the next 10 years
09/01/2020
In his first blog of the new decade, Downtown boss Frank McKenna glances back at a tumultuous ten years and attempts some tentative crystal ball gazing for the next ten years.
What do Social Democrats stand for in 2018?
17/08/2018
It is very easy for what is often described as the ‘politically homeless’ to decry the polarisation that dominates our politics at the moment. Labour