It has been a good few weeks for British politics. So thrillingly unpredictable has the election become that by the time you read this the Lib Dem surge may have subsided and the Tories may be...

Has an entryist plot to take over Britain been hatched at the heart of America’s left-wing establishment? Perhaps so. The Nation is the US’s oldest continuously published weekly magazine, founded...

On a very rainy day a few weeks ago, I took the train to Brighton to gauge the chances of the Greens in their top target seat, Brighton Pavilion. Caroline Lucas, the Green party leader, is standing...

Where have all the women gone? This election has become a woman-free zone. Every time you turn on the TV or tune into Radio 4, it's chaps, chaps, chaps. We are drowning in chaps. Political chaps,...

You can tell this is now a serious fight for Gordon Brown by the fact he has joined the open-necked shirt brigade. At the weekend, he was on screen in a blinding white shirt, open by a sedate one...

I’ve been out on the campaign trail for the Economist for well over a month now, visiting Brighton, Buckingham, Bromsgrove and Luton, among others. What’s been striking in most of those seats is...

In Contested Will, James Shapiro’s just-published book on who wrote Shakespeare (he thinks it was Shakespeare), he quotes from Shakespeare’s Secret, a book for kids by an author called Elise...

I watched the electoral debate last night online, over a Subway sandwich and some late editing work in the Prospect office. My video view of the action—as I gradually deduced from others' eerily...

I watched the debate last night with a group of people invited to a bar in central London by a PR company. I have five reflections. 1. Clegg won, therefore Cameron "won." The conventional wisdom...

Yesterday, I took my lunchbreak early to go hear our next president, Sarah Palin, give a speech for the "tea party express tour" in the Boston Common. It was pretty decent political theatre, for a...