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Labour Leadership Election Observations – Circa January 9th

We are starting to see things ramping up now in the Labour Leadership election. So far Keir Starmer has become the first candidate to reach the first qualification threshold by receiving far beyond the required 22 MP/MEP backers, analysis of the backers show that many of them are MPs who did not support Corbyn in […]

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The 2020 Candidate Profiles – Julian Castro

Note: This will be the final 2020 Candidate Profile in this format. I am going to work to rewrite them. I am not really liking the way these are presented and I would like to try and make them more interesting. You will see my style for the Labour Leadership Candidate blogposts soon which is […]

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2020 Candidate Profiles – Kamala Harris

Well here we are now with all the hubbub of the 2019 UK General Election over and done with we can finally focus more so now on the upcoming 2020 presidential election which I feel will come quicker than we may realize. On another note, Donald Trump is likely to be impeached today by the […]

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The Tory Tsunami

And quite literally since their chosen colour is blue. But anyway, as you should all well know by this point the Tories or as they are otherwise known, the Conservatives, have won a major majority in the UK’s (my country’s) General Election, a huge 80 seat majority, more than anything I had expected and it is clearly an absolute […]

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Labour Party Manifesto Roundup

Labour released their manifesto on 21st November, the party being one of the three major national contenders in the 2019 General Election and in this post I will be highlighting some of their major pledges and promises in the manifesto, so there will be other things that can be found in their manifesto that I will not […]

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Liberal Democrat Manifesto Roundup

The Liberal Democrats are one of three major national contenders in the 2019 General Election, with a chance that they may pick up a number of seats in the election, possibly even becoming a kingmaker alongside the SNP if a hung parliament is resultant, although with the BREXIT Party having stood down in Conservative seats, […]

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Locking up Those with Autism Under the Mental Health Act is Tantamount to Human Rights Abuse

As someone with Autism I am absolutely appalled that in this state and age we find those with Autism and other learning-difficulties being locked away in mental-health holding cells against their and even in a number of cases, their families will. The conditions they are being kept in, small rooms, the absolute minimum human contact, […]

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The Green Party Manifesto Roundup

The Green Party has released its manifesto and with the Liberal Democrats and Labour releasing their manifestos later this week (the 20th and 21st of November respectively), I have decided to do blogposts on some of the biggest pledges and promises from the parties, I will be doing this only for the prominent national parties though, for the Green […]

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The Government of – Bahrain

Bahrain is a small island nation wedged between Qatar and Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf; it is also connected to Saudi Arabia via a major causeway. In the early 1800s it became a British protectorate before declaring independence in 1971, Bahrain got a brief taste of democracy in a 1973 parliamentary election, but the then […]

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2020 Candidate Profiles – Beto O’ Rourke

We are back again for another edition of the 2020 Candidate Profiles where I give an overview on US Presidential Candidates. Currently I am only releasing profiles on the more significant candidates who have dropped out of the race. We have had two more Democrats drop out as of late, the first as can be […]