Barack Obama sarà intervistato dal vivo sul palco alle eventi di Londra e Dublino

A has-been whose entire legacy has been done away with. For whatever reason the Americanised metropolitan middle class love the guy, but can’t seem to enunciate any reason why

I am reminded about that article on the weakness of the “special relationship” where when Obama was elected and he visited, but cut the visit short and our gift to him iirc was something quite grand and his gift was a copy of the west wing that wouldn’t even play outside the US due to the different dvd formats.

I know Oasis have great pull, but that’s some coup for a support act

I’d rather watch paint dry. Never forget, this is the President that paved the way for Trump. Massively out of his depth on the international stage, where he got completely outmanoeuvred by Putin on the Syria issue and refused to show much of anything around Libya. And failed on his campaign promise of closing Guantanamo, probably the worst of it

Will they ask him any difficult questions at all? The man massively increased the use of drone strikes with massive collateral deaths, killed an American citizen abroad without due process, refused to respond when Syria crossed his “red line”, did not help Ukraine in the 2014 invasion or press Russia in any meaningful way and failed to pass any legislation that would federally legalise abortion or gay rights. He also oversaw the massive expansion of corporate power and allowed the Democratic Party to forgo a fair primary which led to Clinton being chosen and the rise of Trump.

My guess is that they’ll instead talk about how cool he sounds and how he feels about still only being the only black president.