In yet further evidence that pretty much everyone in the world knows that Labour are lagging disastrously behind the Tories, George W. Bush thought it prudent to arrange a meeting with David Cameron while he was in the country. The practice of a visiting US President meeting opposition leaders… read more…

When Westmonster first stumbled upon the confusing headline of "Bush contemplates writing memoir", we imagined an anthropomorphic and post-modern account of an unusually pensive species of flora: "I started life as a seed. Though my parents did their best to raise me, they seemed distant and emotionless, too rooted to… read more…

With all the fuss over the recently-resolved Obama/Clinton face-off, it's been pretty easy to forget the man who is all set to step down from his exalted White House position. Well, y'know, save for a few reminders like an inceasingly unstable global economy, spiralling oil prices and the vastly… read more…

If at first you don't succeed, a wise man once said, try, try and try again. And then give up. No point being a whining ninny about it. It looks like the Hillary Clinton camp may finally be heeding this advice (that's the 'giving up' part, by the way,… read more…

In 1927, when the sci-fi genre began to take shape with movies such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis, it was imagined that by the year 2000 man would have colonised the moon, robots would replace people as workers, and that the world would be ruled by just one government. The future… read more…

Old Man John McCain has joined the 'Pastors in the Closet' school of American politics by having a religious zealot get him into a spot of bother. Sharing resonance with the bump in the road that rival Barack Obama's campaign found itself having to get over after similar religious campaign… read more…

Ah, those wonderful differences between British and American terminology. Here on this drizzly isle, a 'running mate' would presumably mean that schoolfriend who used to sneak cigarettes and cider into P.E lessons so you could both occupy yourselves during an afternoon of cross-country jogging. In the States, however, the… read more…

Upper-case 'C' Conservatives in Britain know all too well what it feels like to need a revival — 'twas only a short eight months ago that Labour looked ready to re-up for another five years of fun. But now all that's changed, and beaten-down American lower-case 'c' conservatives are… read more…

'Stand by your man,' Tammy Wynette once sang, not realising that many of her listeners may have to do exactly that. And - following Hillary's forgiveness towards those cheeky little cigar-meets-intern antics a decade back - Bill Clinton clearly owes his wife a favour or two. Consider it returned.… read more…

Rumours are beginning to fly that former Republican leadership candidate Mike Huckabee - he of the frankly astonishing HuckChuckFacts commercial - may well end up as running mate for possible president John McCain. Huckabee is remaining calm about the whole thing, but has stated that the position would be… read more…