Rhun ap Iorwerth has replaced Adam Price as Plaid Cymru leader.
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Rhun ap Iorwerth replaced Adam Price as Plaid Cymru leader.
President of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Konneh announcing partial election results in Freetown on June 26, 2023.
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Sierra Leone needs to rebuild public trust in its election by maintaining a completely transparent process.
Could this be what politicians have in mind when they invoke the “hardworking family”?
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A survey of nearly 900 politicians in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada reveals that they systematically overestimate their electorate’s conservatism on a range of issues.
Michael Gove claimed in 2016 that ‘people in this country have had enough of experts’.
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Our research highlights three key reasons for declining trust in experts, and how to regain their authority in future.
After the Supreme Court began livestreaming its oral arguments in 2020, the public could listen in real time to the justices as they interact with attorneys.
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The Supreme Court has not yet committed to making livestreaming oral arguments a permanent part of its work. But this measure could lead to more transparency and possibly confidence in the court.
Hunter Biden embraces his father, President Joe Biden, and his stepmother, Jill, at Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
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Presidents have family drama, like all other people. Hunter Biden is simply the latest example of a family member who has brought negative attention to a president’s administration.
Succession: no one does much without a phone in their hot little scheming hands.
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How technology is central to the show’s most dramatic and pivotal moments – and how it might define its legacy.
A 2014 view of Gaoui refugee camp in N'Djamena, Chad. Pressure on refugee camps in Chad has increased due to latest fighting in Sudan.
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The ongoing war in Sudan poses security, humanitarian, political and economic challenges for Chad.
From left; Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire Patrick Achi, President of Togo Faure Gnassingbe, President of Benin Patrice Talon, and President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo.
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Africa has been relatively peaceful in terms of inter-state violent conflicts.
David Gyasi and Keri Russell in The Diplomat.
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The Diplomat suggests that if the ‘special relationship’ is to survive into a world turned topsy turvy by Brexit, Trump and war in Europe, it demands a little TLC.
Small arms and light weapons recovered from bandits in Jos, north central Nigeria.
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A lack of political legitimacy can lead governments to illegal purchases of small arms and light weapons.
The stage of the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
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2023 sees the UK host the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine. But what role does the stage itself have to play in the musical spectacle?
Aneurin Bevan was the minister of health between 1945 and 1951, but he was also a prolific writer.
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A new book analyses the Labour politician’s prolific political writing.
Dividing land borders in Ghana is a contentious issue.
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Ghana’s regions have no autonomy, yet creating new ones is contentious as it threatens the interests of chiefs and political parties.
Shortlisted artist Barbara Walker’s work explores issues of racial identity and interrogates Britain’s past.
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From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
The Italian data protection authority used an emergency procedure to impose the temporary ban.
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The blocking of ChatGPT in Italy raises some important questions, including how to balance access to services with the need to protect children
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House would vote on a debt ceiling bill ‘within weeks.’
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to raise the debt ceiling – and avoid an unprecedented US default – but only if Democrats agree to freeze spending and agree to several other demands.
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Communication and compromise should be the order of the day in minority government. It may be a wild ride, but democracy is the potential beneficiary.
Science fiction offers a glimpse of what governments of the world are – and can become.
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Science fiction does more than entertain – it can also be used to better understand the political forces that shape the societies in which we live.
The High Court in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Strengthening the judiciary would ensure a better democratic outcome.
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Ghana’s flawed democracy has failed to establish mechanisms to effectively control corruption.