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What the debate between Florida governor Ron DeSantis and California governor Gavin Newsom can tell us about the 2024 presidential election. With 2024 ever looming and campaigning ramping up, with the major contenders out and about greeting and rallying voters, its worth looking at what the main issues of the
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VVD Rules Out Role in Cabinet The dutch liberal centre-right party VVD has ruled out a potential role in any future cabinet this election cycle. With the party's leader Dilan Yesilgöz stating that the party would need to find a new part in parliament, the party lost 10
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Calling Stockton a shithole when asked about child poverty, the Prime Minister being attacked by the former home Secretary (Suella Braverman), infighting within the Tories and Labour, Brexit, the SNP falling, Northern Ireland’s political stand-off, the economic situation encroaching on opportunity and more, so, so very much more. This
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“In the End, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King It’s early April 1942 a young Lale Sokolov (the main person) is sitting on a train meant for cattle, towards an unknown destination. A feeling of sadness defines
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Argentine Presidential Election Results Change – Argentina has voted for a change in scenery at the capitol, Buenos Aires. With now president elect Javier Milei winning by a large margin of over 10% against Sergio Massa, 56% to 44%. Mr Milei leads the right-wing to far-right Partido Libertario and is one
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Next year in early June the people of the European Union will head to the polls to decide who will represent their country in Brussels. The elections take place over 3 days throughout the continent, in total 720 people are to be elected (15 more seats then in 2019). 361
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Cabinet Reshuffle in Britain Rishi Sunak shakes things up with a cabinet reshuffle, perhaps to try and mask the sacking of Suella Braverman. The controversial, to say the least, Home secretary is out of a job, a loss to the right-wing part of the Conservatives. Her replacement is the former
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After 3 years out of the White House and close to 100 criminal charges, former President Donald J. Trump is holding his own in the polls against sitting President Joe Biden. Mr Trump leads with 2% in FiveThirtyEight, however, crucially Mr Biden is losing in nearly all of the last
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Hero or Hindrance to Progress? Joe Manchin’s Departure From Capitol Hill After well over a decade in the Senate, Mr Manchin has decided to end his extraordinary political career in the Senate. A Democrat in deep Republican territory having been both the governor and Senator of West Virginia (a
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How the AC changed our politics and impacts the world. Take a moment to think about how a simple invention can transform the world as we know it. Enter air conditioning, a technology that goes beyond just cooling our spaces — it has rewritten the narratives of cities and politics in
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Blast from the Corbyn Past: Division within the Labour party Shine through UK Labour Party leader Keir Stamer has been asked to resign by the Labour leaders of two councils, as the people calling for his resignation don’t hold much sway or power within the party nothing is likely
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Founded over 2 years ago: Alba has garnered two MPs through defections from the SNP, created a footing in Holyrood (Scotland’s parliament) through Ash Regan (former SNP leader candidate) and is led by high-profile Alex Salmond former First Minister, former leader of the SNP and leader of the Yes