Featured Image: By Viewsridge from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source. It is still strange knowing that an invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. I for a time was confident that it was just another of Putin’s bluffs in trying to get concessions from the West/NATO. I slowly became less and less confident of this as […]
Featured Photo: Image by Ana Krach from Pixabay Sources are at the bottom of the post. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act in a bid to dismantle ongoing trucker protests in the country that have notably caused stasis and distress in the centre of Ottawa and have also managed to shut […]
Featured Photo: Photo by Raph_PH from Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Source. Sources for post found at the bottom. For the first ever time for a British Monarch we will be celebrating a Platinum Jubilee which will mark the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II taking the throne in 1952. The day of this has actually […]
Featured photo by: Japan Meteorological Agency. CC BY 4.0. Source. Sources for this post at the bottom. As I want to add more posts on here that involve the Commonwealth, I thought this would be something to look into as Tonga is a part of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is a small island nation found in […]
Featured Photo: Image by ErikaWittlieb from Pixabay Well as we saw take place last year the Taliban are now in control of Afghanistan and so I thought I would take a look into how this has so far affected things like democracy, civil liberties, and other freedoms in Afghanistan. Democracy in Afghanistan was already fragile […]
Featured photo: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay (although I edited on words in top-right.) Once again, I go over what I think and many of what were the most significant moments of 2021, and what a year it has been – perhaps not as crazy and 2020 seemed – but it is still certainly […]
An interesting parliamentary by-election will be taking place today. It is shaping up to be a test of the Conservatives and Boris Johnson’s electoral confidence of which lately we have seen backsliding in the polls over recent weeks, especially in light of controversies relating to whether or not Christmas parties took place at Downing Street […]
Barbados became an independent nation from the British all the way back in 1966 although it remained a part of the Commonwealth Realm, meaning that the British Monarch remained the Head of State of the island nation (represented by an appointed Governor-General), which although largely ceremonial, still served an important constitutional role in the country […]
Featured Photo Credit: Photo by Rr016 from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0. Source. For the past few days I have been observing the quickly unfolding events in the now former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as the unprecedented advance of the Taliban took place in the midst of the US and NATO withdrawal from the country. […]
The G7 group of nations have agreed to an accord to set a minimum corporate tax threshold of 15% in a bid to prevent large multinational corporations from simply setting up their profits and tax renenues in countries or territories that have lesser corporate tax even if most of their sales come from other countries where they […]