January of More Than Just a Year

Just read a little opinion piece in the Times, called America’s Riveting Democracy. I quite agree. There's one reason I pay more attention to American politics than the minutiae of Westminster or even Holyrood, just a couple of miles from my doorstep. It matters, and it will keep doing so until much more changes in the world than merely as things seem for now. Obama, Clinton, McCain and Romney are bigger players on that vital stage than any Gordon Brown or Alec Salmond. There's more to it than just scale. As I listen to the last track on last year's best album – Kira Neris' first – I'm minded it's more fundamental than all of that. We are talking of one thing: humanity.