What a decade! As New Labour staggers to its timely death, this could be the most telling week we, the people, have had since the demonstrations against the Iraq War. Hopefully this one will actually make a difference.

These extraordinary times. Her voice echoes out from the TV screen. A news reporter is gravely explaining the next victim in an ever-lengthening line of businesses- banks- queuing for Government hand outs.

Recent job cuts across the regional newspaper network have accelerated the need for an online business model to be found.

“It’s been a long time coming but tonight…change has come to America.”
Democratic nominee Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States.

Watching BBC News Coverage of the US Election, I realised Obama’s victory was tangible, even imminent. And today, 634 days after his campaign began, Barack Obama was confirmed the victor, and the first ever African-American President of the United States.

The US Election race is over-stepping the boundaries of so-called ‘dirty politics’ these days. In the red corner we’ve got the fatigued old man who can’t make up his mind on key issues (such as abortion), flanked by his thicker-than-three-short-planks Alaskan VP candidate who still thinks the world is 6000 years old. In the blue corner we have a highly respectable and motivational speaker for change, accompanied by an expert of political debate.