Hillary Clinton

As those within the Democratic party reflect on Hillary Clinton’s catastrophic presidential election defeat to Donald Trump, surely the question will be posed: did we choose the wrong candidate? Of course this is a very difficult question to answer, but one thing’s for sure – Hillary just simply wasn’t...

Donald Trump is President of the United States. Donald Trump is President of the United States. Get over your denial. Donald J. Trump is President. At times of political disbelief, the easiest response is to stick your head in the sand, to pretend that it isn’t happening. To pretend...

Before polling day, a Trump victory was inconceivable. Who would actually vote for Trump? Only a few stray Facebook commenters who have considerably fewer ‘likes’, if social media were anything to go by. As it turns out, however, the more accurate answer to that is ‘more than 59 million...

Emily Landis Walker, Former Chief of Staff to the US Secretary of the Treasury, Nicholas F. Brad, was invited by the Politics Society to speak to University of Nottingham students on the ‘Current State of American Politics’. Her opening statement was that it is “difficult to be an American in this...

In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and famously declared that he had a dream that his children would one day not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character....

Bernie Sanders has been a revelation in this Democratic primary campaign, making a race out of what was considered a stress-free procession for the wily and experienced Hilary Clinton to the Democratic nomination. A fire-brand leftist independent, who in fact was not even a member of the Democratic Party...

In the run up to this year’s Republican Presidential candidate election, Donald Trump has hogged the media limelight with his weekly liners – all of them consistently politically incorrect and often archaically brutish. He is best described as a professional controversialist, intending to hike up his own publicity, especially since...