I never watch television

Except for American presidential debates

And local elections, when I get positively giddy

Remembering how I was glued to channel five

To the lips of the journalists on hunger strike

To the images of students throwing themselves under the buses to stop the inevitable

To the numbers coming in from the polling stations

Yuschenko – 54, Yanukovich – 45

Sometimes throwing oneself under the bus is enough to turn the history around

Sometimes it isn’t.