Search results

Funnily enough, Tory derives from an Irish word tóraidhe meaning robber/bandit.

I bought Kingdom Scorponok and Rhinox…* But haven’t even opened them yet. Scorp looks pretty interesting; Rhinox feels a bit redundant seeing as I own the 2013 figure and it’s undamaged by time. Oh well. (* I stopped buying the new figures of G1 characters in Kingdom, FWIW. Plus the Fossilisers...

If you’re asking who I’d vote for if I was German… SPD, as I’m your generic centre-left voter. Second choice Grünen, depending on where I hypothetically lived in Germany. If you’re asking who I think will win… I think SPD will narrowly win and there will be a SPD-lead government, most likely...

The federal Liberals remind me too much of the US Democrats – yes, historically they introduced many social reforms and the welfare state, but they’re still mostly “centre-left during elections, centre-right while in power”. That and they’re never going to properly take on wealthy vested...

So, later this month there’s a federal election in Germany, alongside simultaneous state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. So, who are the contenders? (Remember that German governments are multi-party coalitions, with rare exceptions.) CDU/CSU – the dominant centre-right bloc...

I’d be leaning NDP too, were I Canadian… Can’t believe Trudeau called a snap election during a pandemic. Early unscheduled elections over the last eighteen months haven’t gone well for incumbents in any country.