This has been such a rollercoaster week. Purple prose aside, I really do feel like I have witnessed something momentous. I’m not an American citizen but I live in this country and, in any case, I think Obama’s victory is something that the whole world has a stake in. To cut a long story short, I am very, very happy and very, very hopeful. Here are some photos from the night. I started out at Rockefeller Center before the polls…

So it’s a month ago, longer. I’m sat in Luton airport and have just found out that my flight has been delayed by an hour. I am flung once again onto the hard spike that is the real truth that underpins the theory of relativity. An hour is not a fixed unit but a form of currency, it has an exchange rate. An hour in bed is short change, an hour in bed with someone you love is scant minutes,…

Happy voting everyone. May the force be with you.