Nelson Mandela has been removed from the US list of terror suspects. The Telegraph. Strikes by truck drivers in India suggest that we're not alone in this crazy, messed-up world. BBC. The European Commission has announced plans for cross-border healthcare system that would allow UK residents to seek treatment overseas.… read more…

Tesco has stated that it is to stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe, due to the political crisis. BBC. Gordon Brown's 'once-in-a-generation' reform plans will make the NHS one of the best health systems in the world. ePolitix. Four Iraqi men are planning to sue U.S. military contractors after being tortured… 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…

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…

'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…

One could almost smell the quiet in the US presidential campaign at the weekend, as bad weather put the brakes on campaigning in America's Dairyland state of Wisconsin. Polls put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton within 5 points in this state that could either (a) cement Obama's frontrunner status heading… read more…

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday in America, and it's shaping up to be a unique election day. Millions have been spent, thousands of miles logged, hundreds of barbs tossed, and it's all supposed to culminate in tomorrow's 22-state voting extravaganza. But — at least for the Democrats — it may decide… read more…

Hillary Clinton's got to be sitting around thinking, "Bill hasn't screwed me for years, and now he's done it twice in a week!" After the ex-President's fierce attacks on Barack Obama sabotaged Hillary's chances in the South Carolina primary, today the New York Times reports that in 2005 (a) Bill… read more…

Since Hillary Clinton's "surprise" New Hampshire win, the story in the U.S. Democratic presidential race has been Bill & Hill's two-headed, four-fisted attack machine and its success in slowing down Barack Obama. Today, there's evidence that the story is changing, and that a media backlash against the Clintons may be… read more…

Was Bill Clinton, as Toni Morrison famously said, America's first black president? Barack Obama, speaking in last night's Congressional Black Caucus debate amongst candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, ain't so sure: "I would have to, you know, investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities … and some of this other… read more…

Westmonster has recently noted the narrowing of the policy gap between Labour and the Tories — it's all starting to seem like the contents of the two bags are largely the same, just that one's red and the other blue. Today, the lovefest continues with Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's David-Blunkett-fawn-a-thon… read more…

Nothing says "potential President" like packing off your husband to a beauty salon in order to explain to the assembled ladies in hair rollers that the other boys are being awfully mean to you.… read more…

Well, that's that then. Westmonster has duly cancelled her return ticket to Worksop. Gordon forgot the first rule of bandwagons: if you're going to start one rolling you better be damn sure that you can control the bugger if it looks like it's going to run away with itself.… read more…