In James Politi’s article for the Financial Times, he delves into the reasoning behind the Five Star Movement and League party’s backing of a little-known university academic to be the country’s new prime minister: namely that […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Winter Olympics usually come second in popularity to the summer version of the competition. But this year has seen the games in the spotlight for very different reasons. After months of tension between the […]
Yesterday, during an enforced national media blackout, Raila Odinga was inaugurated as the ‘People’s President’ at a ceremony in Uhuru Park, Nairobi, Kenya. Odinga and his National Super Alliance (NASA) party successfully challenged the integrity […]
International football star turned President of Liberia, George Weah, was inaugurated yesterday at the Samuel Doe football stadium. People queued for miles, some dancing, to watch their national hero be sworn in. Weah said “I […]
Shortly before the 2016 Brexit Referendum, Labour party MP, Jo Cox, was murdered by a far-right extremist. The events of that day horrified the nation as the dedicated wife, mother and politician, who had campaigned […]
Germany woke this morning to news that finally, after 24 hours of grueling discussion, the CDU, CSU and SPD were able to agree on some of the big issues on the table. Angela Merkel (CDU), […]
