Nov 25th, 2008 in
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It’s official. Barack Obama is to be the 44th president of the United States of America, after an “against all the odds” campaign in which even he admitted “I was never the likeliest candidate for this office” in his acceptance speech in Chicago on Tuesday night. So how did this young, relatively inexperienced senator achieve his victory to win arguably the highest office in global politics?
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Nov 21st, 2008 in
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No matter where you live in the world, and no matter how hard you may have tried, you could not have escaped the media fest that has been the election trail of the US presidency – much the same mud-slinging contest as it always has been, but with one rather surprising twist. Barack Obama, at just 47 years old, son of a Kenyan goat herder (who later became a senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance),...
Nov 15th, 2008 in
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With unemployment figures reported at an 11-year high and with 1.82 million out of work, what future is there for the UK’s long-term unemployed?
David Cameron thinks he has the answer – well, he would, wouldn’t he! As leader of the main opposition (sorry, all you LibDems out there), he has to throw the occasional spanner in the Labour Party’s political works, then sit back and watch the sparks fly. When...
Nov 13th, 2008 in
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It’s a special occasion and you’ve decided to spend your hard-earned cash on a hot air balloon ride for you and your true love. As you float through the sky without a care in the world, you feel calm, entirely protected by the glorified wicker basket which holds you aloft. It’s a picture of romantic bliss, complete with chocolate, strawberries and a bottle of...