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Alex Massie is a freelance journalist, currently based in the Scottish Borders. He spent five years in Washington DC as a correspondent for The Scotsman and the Daily Telegraph. Prior to that he was Assistant Editor and Chief Leader Writer for Scotland on Sunday. He has also worked as a sports journalist and as a magazine feature writer. He blogs about American, British and Scottish politics and culture. And cricket.

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New Front in the Tobacco Wars: Killer Third-Hand Smoke

9th February 2010 Alex Massie

It's more than a year since I first scoffed at the notion that "third-hand smoke" was going to kill us all. And now I see that this nonsense…

The Ox vs Roy the Rat

9th February 2010 Alex Massie

Granted, it's not quite as memorable as the unsurpassable Demon Sheep, but this ad for John Oxendine, who's running to be the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, has…

The Dividing Lines Obsession

9th February 2010 Alex Massie

This is one of those things that I don't quite understand. Gordon Brown is obsessed with dividing lines and this is supposed to be upsetting us? Sure, this need to…

The Naked Economist

9th February 2010 Alex Massie

As a mild econo-sceptic, I enjoyed James Buchanan's short essay, Economists Have No Clothes:

Economists do not really understand what they are doing as they seem forced to make

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Palin 2012?

9th February 2010 Alex Massie

From Sunday's interview on Fox:

WALLACE: Why wouldn't you run for president?

PALIN: I would. I would if I believe that that is the right

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Open Source Toryism

9th February 2010 Alex Massie

David Cameron's speech on "Rebuilding trust in politics" (good luck with that!) was the usual curate's egg: nice and appealling in theory but also vague and gimmicky. This part,…

Until 3pm Sunday, Hope Lives!

7th February 2010 Alex Massie

This is optimism's optimum moment. Twelve hours from now everything will change. That's when, alas, France will most probably begin to take control of this afternoon's encounter with Scotland at…

Raping Haiti!

7th February 2010 Alex Massie

Connoiseurs of the Guardian will not be surprised by this masterpiece from Mike Gonzalez. The only thing that could improve it is if his piece also found a way…

Jim Devine

7th February 2010 Alex Massie

It would be easy to highlight this Channel Four News interview with disgraced Livingston MP Jim Devine and observe that it highlights so much of what is so wrong with…