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Fish, promises, and votes [EN/PT]

Elections are always a minimally interesting debate, even though it's the same story every single time, always during election season. Candidates show up asking

June 18th Parliamentary By-Election results.

There were two Parliamentary by-elections yesterday one of which, Makerfield was much more high profile than the other one in Aberdeen South. In Makerfield the winner

Roy Hattersley – My small part in the downfall of his party at the 1987 election.

Lord Roy Hattersley, a giant of the Labour Party has died at the age of 93. He served as Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection under the government

It’s another bun fight by-election.

Josh Simons the now former MP for Makerfield has fallen on his sword and taken up the Chiltern Hundreds, a Crown office that disqualifies someone from being an MP

“God is One: Allah for Muslims, God for Christians” on an Electoral Poster in Agrigento: Religious Messaging and the Question of Secularism in Italian Local Politics

Credits: nuovogiornalenazionale.com Some local elections are approaching in Italy and among the various posters I came across I saw the one from the candidate in

Germany 1933 - 1945 - 2026 -2038?

What do you think, how will Germany look like in 2038? 1933 1945 2025 2026 Sonntagsfrage Sachsen-Anhalt Translation with Google, Deepl // just my humble opinion

After the fight, after the counts. Some thoughts on the 2026 UK local and regional elections.

On Thursday May 7th Britain had a series of elections, not a General Election of course, that’s not due until 2029, but elections for councillors to run local

VE Day anniversary

Although in the UK much media and public attention is being focused on the local council elections we must not forget that today is the 81st anniversary of the defeat

Local elections 2026 – The morning after the poll before.

Woke up this morning to find that as expected Labour have lost seats and councils in this local election. This was to be expected as was Reform gaining seats and

It’s Polling Day!

Yes, it’s finally here, it’s local election day for parts of the United Kingdom. Not every council is up for election as it is the wrong part of the electoral cycle

Well done Mr Linehan.

It seems that by some fluke the comedy writer Graham Linehan has managed to land a virtual punch on London’s truly awful Mayor Sadiq Khan. Now Khan is a thin skinned

From Elsewhere: Holy S***! Reading the statements of Green council candidates is a bit like what reading Der Sturmer must have been like.

I chanced upon this thread on X from Noa Cohen. Her local candidates hustings in Camden, North London had been cancelled and there was therefore no opportunity for

What comes after the 7th May? Some thoughts and (possibly wrong) predictions.

Someone, I can’t quite remember who, said that making political predictions at a time of political flux and increasing social chaos is a fools errand, but I’m going

Bulgarian former president Rumen Radev won an outright majority, says EU has fallen victim to its own ambition to be a moral leader, meanwhile EU pushing for removing unanimity voting.

Der ehemalige bulgarische Präsident hat gestern einen historischen Sieg bei den Parlamentswahlen in Bulgarien erreicht und wie es aussieht mit ca. 45% die absolute

The Daily Meme #908!

Why you would accept 'elections' as valid at this point is beyond me, dear reader. It's not like we don't have enough questions going unanswered. It's not like the

Today is election day in Hungary, very high turnout this time, Orban (Fidesz) vs Magyar (Tisza). Opposition leader Peter Magyar (Tisza) significantly leading on Polymarket and now in exit polls too.

Heute sind die Parlamentswahlen in Ungarn, bei der die Partei von Orban (Fidesz) laut Meinungsumfragen und Polymarket abgewählt werden könnte. Die Wahlbeteiligung

The Daily Meme #893!

Hit play! source Have we ever had an honest election? It's unlikely. Look at Gangs of New York, it's not like election rigging is a new concept. Boys are hard to

The Gorton and Denton bun-fight is over.

At last and thankfully, the seemingly interminable and allegedly dirty contest for the Gorton and Denton Parliamentary seat is finally over. The winner is, as you

The Crab President Who Would Be King: An Allegory

There was a time of calamity in the North Atlantic colony of Jonah crabs. The great black-backed gull population had exploded and the birds were feeding upon the

Bunfight at the GD corral.

It was to be somewhat expected that the Gorton and Denton by-election was going to be interesting and might be nasty in places bearing in mind that this contest