What is UXO? UXO is an acronym for Unexploded Ordnance, i.e. weapons that were deployed during a war which have not detonated. Where is Laos? Laos is in South East Asia, west of and inland […]
Are the elections over yet? The midterm elections took place on Tuesday 6 November. The results are clear for most of the elections but there are still a few seats which are ‘uncalled’. This means that […]
What is new in New Caledonia? There was a referendum on Sunday 4 November in New Caledonia, a Pacific island territory that is under French sovereignty. The question was whether it should become an independent […]
What happened last week in Australian federal politics? The Australian government lost its parliamentary majority in a by-election (a special election in only one constituency, to fill a seat whose MP has died or resigned) […]
Macedonia had a referendum on Sunday 30 September 2018 on whether to accept the agreement with Greece about the country’s name that was intended to end a long dispute between the two countries about who […]
What are ‘midterm elections’? Americans go to the polls on Tuesday 6 November for the ‘midterm elections.’ ‘Midterm’ means that these are elections that take place in the middle of the President’s four-year term of […]
How do elections in Sweden work? Sweden holds parliamentary elections every four years. There is only one chamber in the Swedish parliament (the Rijksdag), so these results decide who forms the government – there are […]
On 2 August the Bank of England announced that the base rate, i.e. the rate of interest at which it lends money to the commercial banks, would go up from 0.5 per cent to 0.75 […]
Freelance journalist and political correspondent, Lewis Baston, attended the inflation of the #TrumpBaby balloon at Parliament Square, Westminster, this morning, 13.07.18, along with Make Me Aware founder Samantha Sharp and the rest of the world’s […]
The governments of Greece and (the former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia have at last reached agreement on their long-running dispute about the latter country’s name. There was a constructive meeting earlier in the year between […]
