How Britons watched the 2000 US Presidential election with amazement and incredulity. Confusion? Hanging chads? Recounts? Voters being omitted? That could never happen on this glorious island, surely? Why, Westmonster would place bets that we could remove all sorts of electoral regulations and the process would still be completely… read more…

We've all been in the same mildly frustrating situation - you know that you have a ten pound note on your person somewhere, you know it, and yet you can't remember which pocket it's in, and the barmaid is expecting you to pay for your drinks any second now,… read more…