Europe
The Burnham bounce
The Holborn and St Pancras byelection result on Thursday 8 October, with Labour up and the Greens down, reflects voter preference for Mr Burnham over Mr Starmer. Perhaps this is to be expected in the […]
Europe
Europe
Spanish unions call general strike over housing
“General strikes are usually called against governments,” and, “in this case, it is called against the opposition.” The words of Former socialist Deputy Prime Minister, María Jesús Montero. Rest in Peace, Maricarmen 87 year old […]
Education
France school protests, media unfair coverage
UK media reports on the ongoing protests across France typically focus on the downside of the unfolding situation regarding predominantly peaceful protests by students, parents and teachers at the quality of education, the crumbling high […]
Europe
Could housing bring the left to power?
The “MariCarmen” effect leads to a general election The 23 September 2026 forcible viction in Madrid. Spain, of 87 year old Mari Carmen Abascal, whose image being removed from her apartment building on a stretcher […]
Europe
Die Linke and the Berlin state election, what next?
With 25.7% of the vote, Germany’s democratic socialist party Die Linke, claims the right to govern in the country’s capital city, Berlin, having consistently led in the Berlin state polls for months, despite smear campaigns […]