Jennifer James elects to not get carried away with developments across the pond
The Insider has been suffering more than usual from fatigue this week. This is not due to an early onset of Seasonal Affective Disorder—whilst not a huge fan of the dark evenings they are at least the harbinger of Christmas which has even greater than usual significance now that I am in the educational sector. It’s one thing to celebrate the birthday of Our Lord, it’s quite another when it means a week off work.
The cause of this unseasonable crapulence is the recent American election for which we stayed up to watch the result. As an American-qualified lawyer I felt quite connected to proceedings.
The American president is still, for the time being at least, leader of the Western world. As such, this election was always going to have a major impact upon how we live for the next four years. However, the election of Barack Obama, the first African- American president, is being hailed as effecting a sea change in
