Local elections will take place in England on Thursday 3rd May 2018. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not involved in these polls. In the 2014 local elections Labour did well, gaining control of 6 […]
Only a couple of weeks ago the world’s media were debating the validity, and even the point, of holding Egypt’s general election when the outcome was so obviously a forgone conclusion. With any legitimate candidates […]
Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, claimed another win at the country’s general election (having been in office since 2010) with his party, Fidesz, taking 133 of parliament’s […]
‘It’s one thing to read a policy that explains general practices. It is very different seeing your own data and being able to control it’. Rob Sherman, deputy chief privacy officer for Facebook, quoted in […]
Yesterday, Monday 26th March 2018, was the first day of a three day election poll for Egypt’s presidency. The incumbent president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi only has one opponent: Moussa Mostafa Moussa. He is not very […]
Stephen Hawking died in the early hours of this morning at his home in Cambridge, aged 76. His work on what happens when stars collapse into themselves made him the most famous scientist in the […]
Former Russian spy turned M16 spy, Sergei Skripal (66) and his daughter, Yulia (33) are still in hospital in Salisbury. Both were poisoned on 4th March 2018 by a military grade nerve agent from a […]
Measuring political change in Italy is complicated. Some things that are consistent in Britain and Germany change frequently in Italy. For instance, even the main political parties – never mind the fringes and protest parties […]
The Italian elections on Sunday 4th March 2018 had the lowest turnout in Italian post war history with 72 per cent of the population taking part. In 2013, this was 75.2% and in 2008, 80.5%. […]
This week, news reports of the impending cold snap whipped the British public up into a frenzy with tales of Siberian snow storms set to ravage the UK. The ‘Beast From The East’ (as the […]
