Over on Slugger, David McCann reminds us that the most recent Northern Ireland Assembly election was exactly a year ago today. I hadn't realised that the election broadcasts are almost all online, both for the 2 March Assembly election and the 8 June Westminster election. Here I am ( Read more... )

I spent last weekend in Amsterdam at the Congress of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the European-wide federation of liberal parties. It was a great opportunity to meet up with old friends, and hear some pretty inspiring speakers - the prime ministers of the Netherands, Belgium, Estonia, Slovenia and Luxembourg were all ( Read more... )

The best Pope/Trump pictures and captions
LOL
(tags: uspolitics funny )

The Conservatives just pledged to take our democracy back decades
by bringing FPTP to elections that never used it.
(tags: elections ukpolitics democracy )

Dear France: You Just Got Hacked. Don’t Make The Same Mistakes We Did.
Wise words.
(tags: elections france hacking )

On the day of the 1997 election itself I was in Graz, Austria, buying furniture for our office in Bosnia. Anne was still (heavily pregnant) in Belfast. Even in Austria, CNN and Sky News were available so I was able to help an American colleague follow what was going on - the extraordinary thing was not just the huge scale of the Labour victory, but ( Read more... )

Can Le Pen win through differential turnout?
@ChrisHanretty think it's unlikely.
(tags: elections france )

Why Republicans Can’t Find the Big Voter Fraud Conspiracy
It ain't there!
(tags: uspolitics )

Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
A great read.
(tags: england )

How Russia's attack on Freeland got traction in Canada
Disgraceful. Wake up!
(tags: russia canada )

Are British elections being stolen?
Quite possibly!
(tags: elections ukpolitics )

US makes formal apology to Britain after White House ( Read more... )

Russia’s 5th Column
Buying up the Far Right in Europe and the US.
(tags: democracy eu ukpolitics uspolitics elections russia )

Electing Europe?
My colleague @MariellevHeumen on the Dutch elections.
(tags: Netherlands elections eu )

Chizhov: Don’t ask me if Russia plans to have an ambassador in Edinburgh - EURACTIV.com
Russia has over centuries had ( Read more... )

What conspiracy theories can tell us about politics in Greece
“When assessing a populist government, it’s always hard to tell whether it’s just incompetence or dark designs.”
(tags: politics Greece )

Brexit is (maybe) the ruin of Irish whiskey
...and much else besides.
(tags: ukpolitics ireland brexit eu )

Trump adviser Navarro: U.S, Germany ( Read more... )

EU Top Legal Expert Knocks Down Lords Report on Brexit Payment
You gotta pay your dues.
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit )

The Death of M*A*S*H's Col. Henry Blake
Truth almost as good as myth.
(tags: tv )

Eurozone economy overtakes UK as France and Germany accelerate
From the @telegraph!!!
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit )

Vote 2017: Northern Ireland ( Read more... )