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…

Westmonster has a pretty good memory of Bill Clinton's parsing during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. So we read avidly the New York Times' front-page John McCain bimbo/lobbyist eruption story, and the response(s) from McCain's campaign to see what we could read in the tea leaves. From McCain's responses, he thinks… read more…

Ah the rebound. You're in a relationship, everything's perfect, you think it's going to last forever and then WHAM! Suddenly your supposed soul-mate gets all "it's not you, it's me" on your ass, tells you that he'd prefer to spend his time tramping through Middle Eastern war-zones than another second in your… read more…

Quiet isn't it? In the early stages of the noughties, venturing in the direction of Tesco to pick up a bottle of sweet sherry after dark at this time of year was like going shopping in Basra. Fireworks would explode either side as you ran the gauntlet of lit gunpowder,… read more…