Matt Frei
A serious case of Mittmouth
It is polling season in Washington, and Mitt Romney’s regular gaffs spell bad news for his campaign, blogs Washington Correspondent Matt Frei.
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Cameron’s mea culpa over Magna Carta?
Appearing on David Letterman’s hit US talk show was always going to be risky. And David Cameron was felled by a British history quiz. But did he really not know what Magna Carta meant?
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Matt Frei
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Gary Gibbon
Afghan mentoring – a few quotes that chill
I’ve been reading the document Rory Stewart MP was referring to when he challenged William Hague in the Foreign Affairs Select Committee yesterday about why he referred to green-on-blue/fratricidal/Afghan National Security Force attacks against Isaf as “Taliban” attacks. Rory Stewart said there was evidence that perhaps three quarters of such attacks were not committed by people with links to…
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The Romney campaign wobbles – but will it fall down?
They’re behind in the polls, beleaguered in the press, stumbling to present a coherent message. Now key insiders in Mitt Romney’s campaign are searching for someone to blame.
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Obama gets swept off his feet – literally
A pizza shop owner in Florida got so excited when Barack Obama stopped by, that he lifted the president up in a giant bear-hug. But is Obama embracing a new, more laid-back image?
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Matt Frei
And so, to battle for Mitt and Barry
The razzmatazz of the convention season is over and the pundits have given their verdicts. Now the hard slog of the election fight begins all over again, after two weeks of politics that have barely changed a single poll.
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Ad Wars: Liar, liar, pants on fire
The Obama and Romney campaigns have been putting out out a series of increasingly hysterial ads ahead of the party conventions. Brand consultant James von Leyden casts an eye over them.
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Jon Snow
Iran and Ban Ki-moon's intriguing independence
Should we despair of, or praise, Ban Ki-Moon’s courageous independence in this moment of burgeoning tension?
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Zuma addresses miners in bid to quell South African unrest
As South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma returns to Marikana, where 44 people died during strike action by miners, fears grow that unrest will spread across the heartland of global platinum mining.
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China v Japan islands row – why should we care?
Japan and China are in dispute over rights to a group of uninhabited islands in the East China sea. Channel 4 News examines what is behind the flare-up and why the islands are so important.
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Dramatic footage of battle for Aleppo airport
Footage filmed in Syria’s largest city shows heavy gunfire as rebels and government forces battle for control of the airport, and President Assad appears publicly for the first time in six weeks.
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Treasury: Mervyn King overstepped powers in Barclays scandal
Sir Mervyn King’s interference in the ousting of Barclays’ chief Bob Diamond is difficult to justify, the chairman of the committee investigating the Libor rate-rigging scandal tells Channel 4 News.
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Standard Chartered shares rise as supporters rally round
Standard Chartered shares rebound as British politicians and officials rally behind the bank, blaming protectionist US regulators for attacking London to boost Wall Street’s fortunes.
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Calls for action on gun controls after Aurora massacre
President Obama has called for more gun controls after the Colorado cinema massacre left twelve people dead -but activists say they want concrete action to prevent more violence.
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Jon Snow
Banks, drugs, Mexico and jobs at the top
So Paul Moore, formerly responsible for compliance at HBOS and who was sacked after warning in 2004 that the bank’s lending was risky and in serious danger of-heating, has applied to be the Chairman of Barclays. Mr. Moore, whom I met and talked with extensively last week, is unlikely to be hanging around his phone in the expectation of a Barclays call. Although, I have met no one who knows quite so much about where the more noxious of the banking bodies are buried.
