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The Deep South, the white tree, the noose

  • 25 October 2007
  • 9 comments

Shocking events in small-town Louisiana are confronting white Americans with a poisonous racism they usually ignore.

Thick and thin

  • 11 October 2007
  • 4 comments

John Sutherland on the miracle cures for sale in US bookshops

Andrew Stephen saves $9,000

  • 20 February 2006

The dentist said I needed an extraction and implants that would cost $9,000. Knowing how things work in the US, I got a second opinion. The result? No extraction, no implants

America - Andrew Stephen spoils Bush's fun

  • 05 September 2005

The lasting image of Bush during the summer has been that of an uncaring president who has been idly biking - I can't see him fiddling, somehow - while Iraq burns

America - Andrew Stephen on Bush's judge

  • 22 August 2005

History may well record George Bush's appointment of Judge John Roberts to the US Supreme Court as the most important decision he has taken

America - Andrew Stephen retunes the radio

  • 25 July 2005

Right-wing radio stations have all the best lines, while the "liberal" stations are amateurish and embarrassing. Result: the right can decide on the "facts" with impunity

America - Andrew Stephen feels sorry for Bush

  • 18 July 2005

Terror and the UK - What I saw as Bush arrived to sign the book of condolence at the British ambassador's residence says a great deal about the state of relations between our two countries

America - Andrew Stephen judges the judges

  • 11 July 2005

The president believes the decisions he makes this month may be the most important he will ever make, and they are nothing to do with Africa or global warming

America - Andrew Stephen contemplates a closed mind

  • 04 July 2005

G8 - Bush is not for turning over issues such as Kyoto. He lost his curiosity about the world years ago and doesn't have the mindset to respond to anything new

America - Andrew Stephen imagines Bush's legacy

  • 27 June 2005

In 2019, we will look back at ghostly footage of Bush stumbling through press conferences and Dick Cheney telling people the war in Iraq is going well, and wonder how it happened

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

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What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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