Irrespective of whether you are a monarchist or not, the Queen’s New Years (and Birthday) Honours list makes for interesting reading. Honours have been awarded since at least 1890 and published in the London Gazette […]
The Russian Revolution didn’t start and end in 1917, nor indeed in 1905. There were many things preceding it. As far back as 1894 in fact, a group of intellectuals issued the then Tsar with […]
The formerly safe Republican seat of Alabama has been lost to Democrat Doug Jones in a high-octane twist in this Senate race. As the night progressed it seemed that the self-styled cowboy, Republican Roy Moore, […]
The Centenary of The Russian Revolution: What have we learned? The Economist wrote that Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin, “like a tsar, has buttressed his power through repression and military conflict”. Putin has suppressed political opposition […]
Where does communism come from? The idea of equality and common ownership of property has always been around. There were communes in the English civil war and radical communities in Germany around about the same […]
What happened? The results of the 20th/21st October Czech general election are now in in which the media-savvy billionaire, Andrej Babis, has come out on top. He is a man used to getting his own […]
Although the official results won’t be in until October 31st the provisional final count gives Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party (ÖVP) the win in the Austrian election that has been closely watched by the rest of […]
Where is Liberia? Liberia is located on the West African coast and in 1821 was founded and controlled by the United States creating a colony for former African-American slaves. Who were the colonists? After the […]
How did we get here? The last parliamentary election in 2013 resulted in a coalition between the Social Democrats (SPO) and the centre-right People’s Party (OVP). This was nothing new, the so-called ‘Grand Coalition’ have […]
Why does the Catalan region want independence? Catalonia was once independent from Spain. Modern-day Spain was born after The War of Succession in 1715. After a brief respite in 1931 when the Catalan government was […]
