Iain Roberts' Blog

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 ...

Between Trump, Brexit, Syria, and elsewhere, this has been an awful, terrifying year in the news. I'm going to try and conclude it with ...

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

The Electoral College will meet on the 19th of December . It is almost certain to formalise the election of Donald Trump as President of th...

Twenty-four days after the election, and the reality of the forthcoming Trump administration is beginning to sink in. We are in a scary plac...

In the aftermath of the US election, prediction websites have been heavily criticised for giving Clinton a high chance of victory. This is n...

Donald Trump will be President of the United States. I feel physically sick typing those words, but this is the new reality and we have to...

First things first: There is no reason to panic. Although FiveThirtyEight give Trump a 28% chance of winning the election, they are very ...

It's hard to do justice to the grotesque spectacle before us with just one metaphor, so here is a selection. Trump and Clinton in th...

I hoped the USA would wake up to the awfulness of Trump, and give him a clear electoral defeat. It now looks like it's going to happen; ...

I've spent a lot of time railing against Donald Trump ; but what about Hillary Clinton ? Any mainstream US politician would be prefe...

Like Agent Smith , I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. Donald Trump does not stand for fascism. Maybe he ...

The US Presidential election is shaping up as a battle between reason and unreason. The distressing thing is, reason isn't winning by ne...

Imagine the USA has to vote on what everyone eats tonight. Hillary Clinton is like a cheese and tomato pizza. Some people would prefer add...

More and more, Trump's campaign looks like some mad piece of performance art. Exactly how bad can he get? How ignorant and hateful can h...

In the Democratic Party primary, the nomination has been essentially wrapped up by Hillary Clinton. She now has a healthy 57% of the popul...

In the fallout from Trump's presumptive nomination, establishment Republicans are trying to work out where they stand. Prior to Cruz and...

Donald Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee for President. It was more or less unthinkable to write those words at the beginnin...

In what appears to be a desperate plea for attention, presidential candidate Ted Cruz has announced his running mate . She is Carly Fiorina,...