England for Obama

A piece I wrote for Orange News has just gone live here.

The sentence which really sums up how it feels over here is: “It’s as if America is at once unable to believe its luck, and yet also taking this all completely in its stride.” Everyone and everything feels so positive, so elated, really rather surreal and dream-like, and yet also very real. And while I realise it may seem hard to marry up ’surreal’ and ‘real’, that’s exactly the atmosphere in America – well, certainly in Washington – right now.