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 […]
Malta is a small island archipelago nation located in the Central Mediterranean Sea between the Italian island of Sicily and North Africa facing Tunisia and Libya. Malta has long been strategically viable and as such has led to it having an interesting and long history, much of which is still reflected through its historical architecture […]
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 […]
Mali is a landlocked country located in West Africa where it borders Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, and Mauritania. Its capital city is Bamako which is located in the southwestern part of the country on the river Niger. You may have heard of Mali in the news recently due to two recent […]
Maldives is a small tropical archipelago nation located in South Asia out in the Indian Ocean, and although the islands themselves are small they do stretch over a fairly wide area of ocean, it includes a chain of 26 atolls that stretch from Ivahandhippolhu Atoll in the North to Addu Atoll in the South, over the Equator. […]
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 […]
Malaysia is a country located in Southeast Asia including two large sections, one attached to the Malay Peninsula called Peninsula Malaysia bordered with Thailand and Singapore, and the other section located on the island of Borneo called East Malaysia bordering Brunei and Indonesia, Malaysia also includes many, many other tiny islands scattered about it. Malaysia’s […]
Malawi is a landlocked country located in East Africa and it is bordered with Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique, it also borders along Lake Malawi, which makes up large parts of its borders with Tanzania and Mozambique. The capital city Lilongwe is located near to the centre of the country. In the earliest times the area […]
Madagascar is a fairly sizeable island nation located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa and it is quite well known for its unique wildlife, some of which is found nowhere else on Earth. Madagascar is directly across from Mozambique, separated by the aptly named Mozambique Channel, other nearby island nations include […]
Well, it is that time of the year again – November – specifically in early November there are usually a number of elections that take place in the US, most specifically local elections within the states, including a number for state legislatures. Some special elections may also sometimes be lumped into this mini-election day that […]