Iain Roberts' Blog

The 2020 US Presidential election is tomorrow. I almost wish I believed in gods, so I could pray to them to have mercy on us all. I don'...

Reading the news seemed a harmless habit, even virtuous; but that was before the world went wrong. I miss the old days, when we could be c...

What endgame will there be for Trump? This is not a fairy tale. The knight does not slay the dragon. Everyone does not live happily ev...

It's taken me a while to write this, because it's hard even to think about. It strikes close to home. I am referring to President Tr...

The Trump administration has reached new depths of obscenity over the last couple of weeks. It's going to take me more than one post to ...

Trump could destroy us all. This statement deserves further consideration. It's become a commonplace thing to say. It's the new ...

The moral degradation of US politics goes back long before Trump arrived on the scene. This was reiterated by the blogger known as Mike the...

Short blog entry this week, on account of jet lag. Back to normal next week. Meanwhile, my son has been deputised as a junior officer of t...

Concerning Trump and this week's events in Charlottesville: It's been clear for a long time that Trump is a racist and unfit to ho...

President Trump's latest director of communications barely lasted a week. Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone accurately predicted Scaramucci...

Six months in, the pattern of the Trump presidency seems clear, for however long we continue to be subjected to it. Trump blusters, rants ...

Most fictional Presidents are better than Trump, even the really bad ones. It's not hard to find noble and inspiring fictional Preside...

The American healthcare system is a moral abomination and a practical failure. This matters to me for personal reasons. For the world at lar...

There is a lot of understandable anger directed at Trump voters just now. Charles M. Blow writes in the New York Times : This is why I ha...

Another toddler disavows Trump. Listen up, people, because I have some things to say about Donald Trump. I'd rather be playing wit...

Donald Trump is unfit to be President of the United States; but the very forces which propelled him to the Republican nomination will make i...

It's been an exciting week in the UK Parliament. Some MPs should be proud of their actions, others thoroughly ashamed. Herewith are some...

Yesterday was Groundhog Day, so I watched the excellent film of the same name . It is set in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and I c...

A Vanity Fair piece by Nick Bilton asks, Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Our Next President? According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines , the ...

In the 1999 novel The Business , by the late Iain Banks , a character describes contemporary Russia: The Russians have created their own ...