Gordon Brown threw a Hail Mary Pass by offering to resign as the head of the Labour Party in an effort to entice the Liberal Democrats into a governing coalition. But those talks have apparently run aground, with Labour MPs strongly opposed to any deal. In contrast to that squabbling, the Conservatives are very close [...]

If you’re like me, you became obsessed with the British elections last night, even with the guy whose entire job was to walk around badly animated virtual environments and visualize the numbers in Parliament. And the final numbers show a hung Parliament. The Conservatives, under David Cameron, failed to achieve a majority, though they received [...]