It’s been a year since Gordon Brown arrived in Number 10 Downing Street, uncontested. I don’t normally look to record anniversaries (apart from this and this, and maybe this), nor comment directly on politics. I wish politics were better, of course, and I think the political media must take a lot of responsibility for not [...]

Here is a great study for those who like to mix sport and politics, pointed to by orgtheory.net and Political Science Blog. I did not realise that the US national sport would make it as one of our broken things, not knowing until now about the controversy surrounding the “designated hitter” rule. The rule, which [...]