A friend of many years’ standing has sent me an essay written by his 21-year-old grandson, now entering his final post-graduate year. It purports to establish that Capitalism and human survival on Planet Earth are [more…]
Cast your mind back to the morning of Friday the 2nd of May 1997. The British electorate had overwhelmingly swept Anthony Charles Lynton Blair to power, in a landslide victory that conjures imagery of a [more…]
After perusing the results of the Euro Elections I just about feel confident enough to explain how the two different types of PR counting work. Northern Ireland, in common with the Republic, use the Single [more…]
The Conservative Party and the Labour Party, the duelling banjos of UK politics, took a stuffing, a stuck-pig type stuffing in the EU elections. Squeal piggy, squeal! Burt Reynolds was the man, the alpha male [more…]
Wow, friends. What a few weeks it has been since the last piece I wrote. The battle between nationalism and globalism continues, as does the collapse of traditional left versus right politics. Evidence of this [more…]
As expected, The Brexit Party won by a considerable margin, not that you would be aware of that from listening to either Sly or Al-Jabeeba. Chuckup’s shower have been obliterated, not even a sniff of [more…]
Ed. Estimated declaration times here are the estimated declaration times(via @drdavidbull) pic.twitter.com/kqsPjy9431 — Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) May 26, 2019 Well, this is it, the one where I probably get my face covered in egg. How [more…]
Here is a brief description of the European Elections in Northern Ireland. It is brief because even after reading about it, not everything is clear especially the counting procedure. One of our commenters, maybe Dan4, [more…]
This is the sixth in a series of seven articles. They contain a brief(ish) introduction and a list of parties and candidates standing in one or two Regions for the European Elections. The first table [more…]
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