The Four Of Us Are Lying
At the time of writing, New York Times resident psephologist, Nate Silver, estimates the likelihood of a Romney victory to be precisely 25.4%. A figure like this makes Romney look as relevant as Myspace.com but it still leaves a one in four chance of surprise victory. Whether this article becomes a presidential profile or a...
The Hope Deficit
Flex is excited to be bringing you a new weekly update on the United States presidential race. Penned by Nicholas Barrett, blogger at The Huffington Post and International Journalism student at City University, London, things are going to get pretty hot around the collar as the weeks count down to the election. Mitt Romney’s impressive...
The Rio+20: “Leaderless and weak, a little like planet Earth”
This week, 20 years on from the historic 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the world’s leaders will gather in that same beautiful city to do some reconvening. Except that they wont. Or at least the leaders from the biggest nations won’t. This is an event that could mean so much for...
The Triumph of Obama and the End of the GOP Delusion