So the polls were right. For a while there after the terrorist shooting in Paris, I was pretty convinced that we may end up looking at a contest between Fillon and Macron, both of whom […]
Today is Friday. The first round of presidential elections in France takes place on Sunday. Most of the campaigns have now ceased although the far left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is still at it. He’s doing […]
The above is a photograph of one of the candidates in the recent French presidential TV debates on Tuesday this week: Philippe Poutou. I liked his Gallic shrug. You’ll read more about him below. Image cited in sources below, […]
Opinion Way/Elabe Poll for Les Echoes Opinion Way poll shows support for all candidates is stable: Le Pen is at 25% Macron is at 25% Fillon is at 20% Melenchon is at 15% Hamon is […]
At 5pm on Tuesday evening, after three days of debate and knowing it would mean a constitutional fight with Westminster, Scottish MSPs in Holyrood voted 69 to 59 for Nicola Sturgeon’s proposal for a second […]
I haven’t done one of these in a while. Here you go: Latest Opinion Way poll shows support for Le Pen, Macron and Fillon stable at 26%, 24%, and and 20% respectively. Hamon is down […]
All eyes were on them yesterday, it cannot be denied. The long awaited meeting between Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon yesterday: the first since their rather public spat about the possibility of a second independence […]
Theresa May has a busy week. Yesterday she was in Glasgow for talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Prior to that meeting, she addressed the Department for International Development whose office is based in […]
Theresa May will trigger Article 50 tomorrow by writing a letter to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council. The official two year negotiating period in which the UK will still remain part of the European […]
Wilders above left, Rutte above right. Some nice little quotes to start off with from the existing Prime Minister Prime Minister Mark Rutte, quoted in the Washington Post earlier today: ‘You could say these are the […]
