#Référendum

Jacques Poitras

poitrasCBC

25 years ago, Canada braced for a Quebec referendum on separation that was too close to call. My most vivid memory , other than the obvious existential dread, is of

Quarantined 🇺🇸4DChessMaster🇺🇸

4dchessmaster1

Why the 2018 election cycle is perhaps the most damaging series of events in the American political consciousness since Watergate, a thread /1 In retrospect, the 2018 elections and its

John Rentoul

JohnRentoul

What is happening in Scotland matters to the whole of the UK @indypremium https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/editors-letters/scotland-independence-brexit-nicola-sturgeon-polls-snp-a9613801.html Two polls (admittedly both from

Phil

DrSchwitters

Bit of a high-risk strategy, this one.https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1306164694210826241 (I mean, it also makes me want to bang my head against something hard, both for the flagwaving itself and for the mindboggling

Joseph Cotterill

jsphctrl

The English People's Congress promised a firm line over a power-sharing deal with northern separatists today.https://www.ft.com/content/dca43e96-0007-11e7-96f8-3700c5664d30 Separatists in the north launched another independence bid toda

Greg Olear

gregolear

Re: #Kamala’s abrupt suspension of her campaign, right before the big debate: After sleeping on it & mulling it over with @OPCGhost, I’m convinced that she made a deal, and

🔥Al Raven 📖

alraven3

Some important notes on the Swiss political system: (Voutat, Rayner, 2017) The '(actually semi-/pseudo-) direct democracy' in Switzerland creates a dimension of indeterminacy (a key component of the ideal of

Derek Wessman

dwvcd

Japanese Law ThreadI’m studying for the administrative scrivener 行政書士 test: (It’s the least advanced of Japan’s 3 attorney-ish professions; next=judicial scrivener 司法書士, highest=attorney 弁護士).  I’ll share study notes w/ #行政書士eng ←PLEASE

Andrew Robert Francis

T8NTraynor

The *best* thing we can do to respons to the Fair Deal panel?Ignore it.Yup, 100%.Why? 1/ #ableg The Fair Deal proposals are what Kenney WANTS Albertans to be discussing. Its

Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷

OliverStuenkel

Bolivia's socialist candidate Luis Arce looks set to win the country's presidential election without the need for a run-off, an unofficial counts suggest, which would put Evo Morales's MAS party

Darren McGarvey

lokiscottishrap

Hint: people in Darlington don't see themselves as part of a homogeneous blob of political sentiment and nobody there uses the term Red Wall. I guess we should ask: what

Patrick English

PME_Politics

My updated estimate of British public opinion on immigration since the 1980s.Higher values indicate more of the population expressing negative views about immigrants/immigration across questions from @BESResearch, @NatCen's BSA, the

Peter Ward

Peter___Ward

This isn’t a news story. The Independent launched a campaign for a second referendum (which is probably one of the only reasons that this paper still exists). Everyone knows that

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadPoor @russ_hjelm just woke up from a five-year nap.Get used to saying, "Two-term President @realDonaldTrump," Russ.Your boat already sailed. A whole BUNCH of your boats sailed.The SS Resistance.The SS Veterans

MerryMichaelW 🎗 😷 #T & T #BlackLivesMatter #BDS

MerryMichaelW

The Maastricht Treaty was signed by John Major, February 1992, but only ratified in Parliament in September, by Major taking the nuclear step of calling for a Vote of Confidence.

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

I looked at this piece by @michaelgove in an effort to understand what it is that prevents the current government from agreeing a free trade agreement with the EU.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/michael-gove-why-were-not-giving-in-to-the