juliet

Yes, but you're both a professional cynic, and in any case likely to be deeply disappointed by any form of fiction where the lead character has access to intercontinental nuclear missiles and doesn't use them.

The last Democrat President saw the deficit turned into a surplus, unemployment virtually halved, shifted tax so that ordinary people paid less, had the first US cabinet which didn't have a majority of white men, brought in paid parental leave, increased controls on the supply of guns, vetoed cuts in education spending, helped us get the peace deal through in Northern Ireland, and would have done the same in the Middle East if Arafat were not a grandstanding grade a w4nker.

Good government does good things. It's a bit sad that it only reaches a large audience when it's disguised as fiction.