America Decides

 
We were fortunate to be given a presentation on the forthcoming mid-term elections by Jeff Karp, who is the University’s Senior Lecturer in Electoral Politics.
Jeff kindly volunteered to fill a spot vacated by Labour leadership contender John McDonnell, who sent his apologies for his absence due to an urgent constituency matter, and gave us a [...]

Call that a story?

The lone regular reader out there will recall that I’ve already mentioned Kenny Young, who spent his summer helping out Bob Casey’s campaign to topple the incumbent Republican Rick Santorum in an absorbing Senate race.
I bumped into Kenny, always good for a laugh, at Saturday’s Progress Conference – which I’ll try and write about soon - and it [...]

Is Al running, after all?

My friend Kenny Young, who is our candidate for North East Fife in May as well as being the chair of Scottish Labour Students, was lucky enough to hear Al Gore speak at the Edinburgh Literary Festival last night.
Gore is busy promoting his new book and film, An Inconvenient Truth, which highlights several prescient concerns about climate change [...]