In the same way that Arnold Schwarzeneggar, the Governor of California is a Republican in Name Only, so the Mayor of London Boris Johnson is a Conservative in Name Only and he proves it today by launching a review into the feasibility of granting an amnesty to an estimated 400,000 people living illegally in London. That's the way to do it Boris - send 'em a message that they can all unde...

It was clear, by little after 1am GMT on the morning of 5th November, that the Republican Party had suffered a painful defeat at the hands of the Democrats. The party lost the Oval Office and watched scores of seats...

Some years ago I wrote a piece for the The Other View, a magazine which had been set up jointly by former Republican and Loyalist political prisoners, in which I looked at the high levels of educational deprivation within Loyalist communities in the north of Ireland. I wrote that 62.04% of the people of working age within the Loyalist Shankill Road area of Belfast had no vocational or ed...

The defeat of Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator, when Alaska's senate race was finally declared on Tuesday night chalked up one more seat for a Democratic majority grasping for the magical 60-seat threshold that would immunize it from opposition filibuster.

Some of the last pieces of the November 4th US election are falling into place. Felonious Republican Ted Stevens has conceded the Alaska senate race to Democrat Mark Begich. Missouri has finally declared for John McCain by just over three thousand votes out of 2.5 million - a major achievement for Obama - leaving Obama with more than twice as many Electoral College Votes as McCain in the final

A fortnight ago, Lib Dem Voice published the unconfirmed results of our competition to predict the electoral college outcome of the race to be the next President of the USA. At the time of writing, we assumed Missouri’s 11 votes would end up in Senator McCain’s Republican column; and that’s now been confirmed. (Bang goes

Via Strange Maps we have some freaky stuff. Beow are two maps separated by 150ish years. The first is a county level snapshot of Obama's wins in a section of the South. Blue being Democrat, red being Republican. The second, as the title says, represent cotton production density in the same area of the South in 1860, where, clearly, those who would have been picking cotton were segrated former slav...

Cormac Mac Airt Below is a personal memoir by Jim Gibney of Belfast Irish Republican Cormac Mac Airt, who died recently aged 56. Mac Airt is survived by his partner Cathy, sons Cormac, Séamus, Dermot and Micheál and daughter Joanne. Cormac Mac Airt joined the Republican Movement at the beginning of the 'troubles', he was interned in Long Kesh in the early 1970s.  On re...

The BBC report that veteran Republican Senator, Ted Stevens has finally lost his bid for a seventh term in office after a knife-edge race against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. The Democratic candidate led the Senate's longest-serving Republican by 3,724 after Tuesday's count, with only 2,500 overseas votes to be tallied. It is the first time Alaska has elected a Democrat to the Senate for...

The Rebuild the Party was set up by Republican Party members in the wake of their defeat in the 2008 American presidential elections. The website sets out information on the aims of the organisation and its membership. It includes comments on how to reform and modernise the Republican Party. This includes the development of online political communication techniques.