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Whilst I have followed US elections for a long time I've never had much interest in the party congresses before. Is it usual for the presidential nominee not to show up? We are day 3/4 of the Democrat National Congress and about the only person not to have shown up is Harris! Is this normal /...

She's gonna regret that in the morning :lolol:

The best thing the Democrats ever did was getting shot of Biden. At least Harris has a chance of defeating Trump; Biden was not even close. Biden was on the radio this morning mumbling about something or other and I found myself thinking "FFS shut up and let Kamala do the talking". Every time...

Ignorant Yanks. And this is a country we are so desperate to have a "special relationship" with?

And again we have much in common with our American cousins. Are Biden and Trump the best you can come up with? Because the best we can come up with are Starmer and Sunak. What a sorry state the western political world has become.

Trump, in his own words, has said "I will be a dictator from day one" (if re-elected). Surely that threat / promise tells you all you need to know about Trump's threat to democracy. But he is only going to be a dictator for one day. Yeah. Right.

Watching the excellent C4 documentary on the Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson. Plenty of people warned us what a lying, incompetent clown he was (including his former employer Max Hastings - "I would trust him with neither my wallet nor my wife") but he still got a >80 seat majority. Trump is...

Religious fundamentalism is extremely dangerous in all its guises. Here's another fruitloop. Just as dangerous as trump.