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Queen Elizabeth II – A New Era Begins

Photo credit: Joel Rouse/Ministry of Defense. www.defenceimagery.mod.uk License: Open Government License 3.0. Source. It is certainly a sad time for many right now. Although we expected this to happen sooner rather than later, I think in the end we did not realise how soon and sudden it would be – especially so soon after the […]

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Lower Grades are not the End of the World

Featured photo: Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay And here we are again. Results day for GCSE’s. To many people today is either one of the best or worst day’s of their life but it really does not have to be. Even if you do not get the grades you have wanted there are still so […]

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Quick Observation of Conservative Leadership Election

Featured photo credit: photo from defenceimagery.mod.uk by Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC. OGL v1.0. Source. Thought I’d type up a short and quick post about the Conservative Leadership Election before my next live class on my course begins this morning. I have been watching on the sidelines still as candidates have been knocked out. I saw […]

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The Weekly Update #11 – Early Edition

Doing the Weekly Update a day earlier than usual because I am going to be out tomorrow evening following the finishing the course I am on for the day so there will not be time tomorrow. I am actually typing this up today during spare time I have while the course is still ongoing (its […]

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The Weekly Update #10 – What a Hectic Week

I did not realise so much can go down in the space of a few days of this week but here we are. I was getting all worked up to do a post yesterday especially if Boris Johnson had not decided to step down by that point but he soon very quickly did. So, skipped […]

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Westminster By-Elections and Local Elections Roundup

Featured image: Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Well, the local elections are over with the biggest winners being Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The biggest losses were made by the Conservatives as was widely expected. Gains were also made by the Greens, SNP, and Plaid Cymru.  The total net gains and net losses were…  […]

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British Virgin Islands Enquiry Asks for Direct Rule from Britain

As always sources are at the bottom of the post. This blog will be looking into the effects of direct rule on the Turks and Caicos Islands and gives us a kind of template of what may happen with the British Virgin Islands, so read on to find that or scroll down to the section […]

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The 2022 UK Local Elections – What to Watch

Featured image: Image by John Mounsey from Pixabay It’s that time of the year again! Another round of local elections is upon us, taking place next week on the 5th May with results following probably mostly on the 6th May. And just like last year these local elections will be accompanied by an election of […]

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The French Presidential Election – The Era of Radical Candidates and France’s Uncertain Future

This post includes political opinion. Sources for non-opinion content at bottom of post. The first round of the French Presidential election took place on Sunday 9th April. France as I have stated before in my France Government System post uses a two round absolute majority system for presidential elections.   What this means is that in […]

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The Weekly Update #1 – TV Channel Blog Post, Short Blogs and More  

Welcome to the first edition of The Weekly Update. This is a SHORT blogpost that I am going to try and do each week amongst the usual blogposts. It will focus on giving some news about what is happening with the blog, such as what I am working on and any plans, I am willing […]