He looks nervous. Chin up. Red tie. Barack. Then, the amicable, big smile of Joe Biden. Blue tie. Dick Cheney in a wheelchair. As CNN covers the soon-to-be ex-Vice President’s arrival at the Capitol, a woman is laughing hard in the background. Awkward. All those people in Washington. All those people watching on television. All [...]

Walking down the street, listening music on my iPod. I was trying to imagine what it was like in the United States at the time our parents were young, when people of different race were discriminated, abused and treated as lower than others. In the United States, and on many other places across the world. [...]

The other day I saw this news report on the Obama campaign headquarters. I was fascinated by the buzz going around there, which reminded me a little bit of my own job, in the two weeks leading up to the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s press, phone calls, information coming in, the occasional troubleshoot… Have a [...]