Ted Kennedy

I have no problem at all with the older fellow’s inconsistencies

Tory attacks and cake

Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien have become a proxy for two different viewpoints in a divided country

The Democrats are headed for a huge setback in November

I hope, though I doubt, that Nate Silver’s performance during the stretch drive of the Massachusetts special Senate election will finally lead to him being downgraded from “All-seeing HAL-9000-esque quantitative wizard” to “Just another guy with a computer”. Armed only with the traditional maxims of psephological interpretation, which teach that a late polling break away from the incumbent party is a very unfavourable omen, one could have figured out ten days ago that repulsive Democratic candidate Martha Coakley was in a heap of trouble. Silver, with his revolutionary disregard for everything but the polling numbers, was still arguing as late as Thursday afternoon that Coakley was the clear favourite; he changed his mind at midnight that evening and acknowledged that Scott Brown had a puncher’s chance.

Everyone, even Conrad Black, shows up in the high society crime chronicler’s final novel

Thoughtless, kind, self-indulgent, generous. Ted Kennedy’s excesses ran in every direction.

Bruce Anderson goes out on a limb and suggests politicians are still human.

President Obama gives the eulogy at Ted Kennedy’s funeral

More liberal than either of his brothers—and a bipartisan deal-maker.

The youngest Kennedy was an inspiring orator like his brothers

If he had lived, Kennedy may have been able to bring about a bipartisan reform bill and compromise among Democrats