The United States differs from the United Kingdom in many ways. They have dollars; we have pounds. They call it soccer; we call it football. They drive on the right of the road; we drive on the left. The latter is a good analogy of both countries’ conservative parties’ positioning […]

Last night saw the last Republican presidential debate of 2015 and this Saturday will see the last Democratic debate of the year. Americans will be going to vote for their next president in November 2016 and as it is getting closer to the election, I thought I would write my […]

Who would have ever thought that Donald Trump would be the leading candidate in the 2016 Republican primaries? His meteoric rise in the race for the Republican nomination epitomises the GOP’s main problem; they are too extreme. Whereas the Democrats’ five candidates are fairly balanced, with Bernie Sanders the only […]

This debate was the first of the race for the White House and it offered us a glimpse into the GOP’s finest candidates. The Republicans are yet to modernise on ideas such as same-sex marriage and abortion. Some controversial statements on the latter did no favours for Florida senator Marco […]

The first Democratic presidential primary is not until February 2016 but there is already speculation about who will be the Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton seems the obvious choice. She has name recognition and is backed by Wall Street and other influential donors. However, Bernie Sanders, a little-known openly-socialist senator from […]

Let’s start with the most obvious reason the U.S. is allied with Saudi Arabia: oil. Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil depository in the world, after Venezuela. It has 268,350 million barrels in oil reserves according to the U.S. Energy Administration’s International Energy Statistics and for the U.S., a […]

On Thursday North Korea threatened a “pre-emptive strike” against the US that would engulf Washington “in a sea of fire”. However, these threats aren’t new. The state propaganda machine released an eerie simulation of a virtual American city in flames back in February accompanied by elevator music. Jay Carney, the […]

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, waved goodbye to the state department today as she plans to take a rest after three decades of public service. Former Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, will succeed her. Hillary, the wife of former US president, Bill Clinton, was chosen by Obama as his Secretary […]