Political Tours

22/12/2024

Join us in 2025 for some fascinating small-group, expert-led tours #2025

04/12/2024

07/11/2024

Malcolm Brown and Alex Norris at the summing up of our US election tour. Michigan, Pennsylvania and then DC. Rallies, supporters on both sides, voters and campaign organisers, The Heritage Foundation, Congress and numerous tv and radio studios. We got an inkling of what was to come, but perhaps not the scale of it.

06/11/2024

Politics is a cruel business.

06/11/2024

Dusk last night outside the White House. Many buildings were boarded up in the expectation of violent protest, an unlikely prospect now with Trump winning such a convincing victory. A rocky few years ahead.

05/11/2024

Hans von Spakovsky. One of the authors of Project 2025 at The Heritage Foundation. Fascinating discussion with him. His focus is on election integrity or fraud. We also spoke about the Foundation's belief that the top level of the civil service is essentially liberal and will systematically block the measures of a conservative administration. Project 2025 suggests that senior civil servants should be political appointees selected by the president who is elected.

04/11/2024

Next stop... Project 2025.

03/11/2024

Whoever is staying in our hotel needs two massive trucks blocking the entrance and secret service scanning you on the way in. #

01/11/2024

4 days to go. Trump, live from in Macomb County, Michigan.

01/11/2024

Any guesses as to what we are upto today?

11/10/2024

Thinking of all those UN peacekeepers on the Lebanese border with Israel. In more peaceful times we've visited here and seen the work they do. You can see how close this Ghanaian Batalion's position is to the nearest IDF base. An incredibly tough job.

26/09/2024

At Gee Farms in Ingham Country, Michigan, they are gearing up for . We are hoping to stop by as we gear up for the US election. Like Pennsylvania rural counties are conservative. Republicans need are a large turnout here to counterbalance turnout in the cities. How do Trump's tarrifs and anti-migrant policies affect folks here? We'll find out on tour 30 Oct to 6 Nov. Oh and they sell great donuts and homemade cookies.

26/09/2024

Scoping out Detroit ahead of our US election tour here (starts Oct 30). A lot of empty spaces and parking lots in motown. Still, some very beautiful buildings. Getting stuck into the politics in next few days.

24/09/2024

A metalurgic coke plant near Zipaquirá, Colombia. Coal is heated at high temperatures in an oxygen free oven. Volatile components are burnt up and the resulting is hard, porous and pure carbon. It is used for melting slag and metal and is crucial to the production of steel. This site lies at 3100 meters high. It obviously generates high levels of CO2. Is there a greener way to make steel?

24/09/2024

Joe Daniels, FT Andean correspondent on the final day of an excellent tour in Colombia. We looked at everything from the peace process to the continued hold of organised crime on the economy. A stunning journey that took in Granada in Antioquia, Medellin, Bogota and then finally Cartagena, Gabo's city of imaginary realism. A thought provoking and gripping 10 day journey.

17/09/2024

We do love a Chiva! Colombia's colourful buses. Chiva literally means goat, an apt name for the task on the steepest of Andean tracks. Some even have self-infalting tyres to deal with frequent punctures.These are in Granada, Antioquia, a town that suffered terribly during the civil war but is now thriving again. war

17/09/2024

Communa 13 has an incredible story of revival after years of civil war. Murals and tourists now line the steep alleys, while escalators and cablecars carry people in and out of the city. Not every bario is so lucky though.

16/09/2024

Mural in communa 13, Medellin, famed for its art music and escalators that enable people to move up and down the barrio quickly. It's been 7 years since I was last here and it's booming, literally. I like this one most. It commemorates a friend who died.