Republican Mitt Romney tried to be casual, relaxed and engaging in New Hampshire. It didn’t work. Crikey’s Guy Rundle begins his US roadshow in the bellwether state to report on this week’s crucial primary.
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Guy Rundle: Romney fails to impress in New Hampshire
Rundle: goodbye 2011, and Knut who died from coke and hookers
Giffords, Zsa Zsa, Giddings, Merkel, ******, Moran, Osama, Obama, Mladic, Joyce, Winehouse, Rupert, Bolt, Hitchens, Kim … and Knut. Your handy reminder of the year that was.
The number crunching that is Iraq is finally done
The whole process had been an imaginary projection of US power in any case — removing the Iraqi people from the picture meant that all attention could be focused on American suffering and the meaning of the war in American life.
Guy Rundle: How violence in Europe takes a hard-Right turn
How will the Liberal Right deal with the increasingly violent and racist trajectory of the hard-Right? Not well, one suspects on the evidence.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: for Cameron, Brussells sprouts a sort of zen veto
The EU could have given the UK kittens, bl-wjobs and Belgium for free, and Cameron, on returning, would have still been portrayed as “the man who sold out to Europe”.
Guy Rundle: An unusual twist in the NotW phone-hacking tale
The Leveson inquiry into the UK print media has taken an unusual turn.
Rundle: NotW scandal widens, Mulcaire now has nothing to lose
December 7 — a day of infamy for an empire, its forces tethered and defenceless, the enemy coming out of the sun, laying waste.
Guy Rundle: Cameron’s bulldog image in danger of losing its balls
The problem for Cameron is that he’s dealing with a triple crisis — party, country and Europe — while his enemies have only one aim, to make the Tories over as a euro sceptic outfit.
Guy Rundle: Bffo and Molotovs, but real anarchists are in Brussels
Amid the drifting tear gas at the entrance to Syntagma Square, the black bloc are doing their best, with the petty weapon of the Molotov.
Jugglers on the street, PM trying to keep skittles in the air
You would be hard-pressed to say there was anything amiss in Kolonaki, the upmarket area one stop along from the centre of Athens. Here, amid the Parisian-style apartment buildings and boutiques devoted to the sale of all things Athenian — furs and leather thigh-high boots for the most part — there are no empty shop fronts, and anyone going […]
Rundle in Athens: Mogadishu with spanakopita, and the mood is dangerous
We’ve already established what kind of girl Greece is; now we’re just haggling about the price.
James Murdoch escapes, but leaves many hostages
News International chair James Murdoch is either a liar or an utterly incompetent executive. Those are the only two conclusions you can take away from his evidence to the House of Commons select committee.
Guy Rundle: Irresistible force, immovable object — EU’s big bang theory
For the first time since the European debt crisis began last year, the prospect of a break-up of the euro became a very real and present possibility today.
Rundle: why Europe is trapped in the death spiral
In the end, it all depends on Greece. If that can be held together, Italy can be stabilised, and so on. If not, it all goes, and before Christmas.
Rundle: Assange needs to turn his predicament into a wider cause
Sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice, the appeals court dismissed all four separate arguments made by Assange’s legal team, thus committing him to extradition to Sweden, should the Supreme Court refuse to review the appeal.
Rundle: among Occupy’s guy ropes, Anglicans in act of solidarity
Around the steps of the cathedral, the Occupy protest sprawls, its hundred or so tents arranged in rows, making tiny streets in the expansive paved yard.
Guy Rundle: Europe and how a colony on the moon can save it
Europe is on the brink — and it’s a measure of how fast-moving the crisis is that I must add the phrase “at time of writing”.
Guy Rundle: The middlingness of this year’s Booker Prize list
The West is broke, the Middle East is in flames, the world is going to hell on a hire bike, but let’s get to what really matters — the Booker Prize.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: a little bit of the Cameron crew Fox off, hero to zero
You hardly knew where to look in London this week. The government didn’t fall, but a section of it sheared off, and fell into the sea.
Rundle: it’s all in the tone, Mao Turnbull, and apparently the genes
Malcolm Turnbull today refused to deny rumours that former Liberal prime minister Harold Holt was a Chinese agent, in a speech that offered fulsome praise for China’s one-party development model.
Guy Rundle: Bolt decision represents an ideological bind
The Andrew Bolt judgment (Boltgate? Gatebolt) has had and will have a lot of keystrokes devoted to it over the next while, but most of them will be from either the liberal-left, the cultural left, or the Right.
Guy Rundle: Greece should leave the EU and turn Europe on its ear
Monetary union, that most unlikely of thrills, took Europe for another hair-raising ride, with the German parliament voting 523-85 in favour of the terms of another rescue package for beleaguered Greece
Guy Rundle: The pole stars to navigate a future only just begun
Watching the news, two stories catch one’s eye, and remind one of how much things are changing, and how fast. The journey from bits to atoms is not as simple as that from atoms to bits.
Guy Rundle: Red Ed’s new capitalism — it’s not easy being green
Grinning, young, confident, Labour leader Ed Miliband strode across the vast forecourt of the Liverpool Conference Centre, towards a date with destiny — his first leader’s speech to the party conference.
Guy Rundle: No making light of the stupid party riding again
When CERN last week announced that it had experimental results suggesting that neutrino could travel faster than light — thus breaking Einstein’s theory of relativity — the only thing that moved faster than the particles in question was climate-change sceptics.
