Matt Cowgill flagged this UN report on his twitter stream: “Measuring child poverty – New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries” http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/660
A very rich document proving numerous insights on “how tough” societies are doing (for example measured by the relative child poverty rates before taxes and transfers – [...]
The chronicle of the demise of Australian Labor since the emphatic victory of Kevin Rudd in 2007 has almost become a journalistic genre in its own right.
From Left to Right, 3 Labor forensic investigators, 3 views: social, societal, and liberal @Dr_Tad, @MrBenjaminLaw and @bobjcarr
Forensic commentators cover a spectrum of opinions that stretch from “social democracy [...]
So here we are… a couple of weeks after the election of Francois Hollande as the 2nd Socialist Party member to ever get to the Presidential position in the current constitution started in 1958.
His campaign slogan “Le Changement, c’est maintenant” (Change, is coming now) echoed both Obama’s “Change” and Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam’s iconic [...]
This is Part 2 of a post started here (Part 1) on the historical evolution on the French Right and how le Pen and the National Front got to occupy this place in French society.
So here we are: a few days before Round Two of the 2012 French presidential elections and Marine le Pen has [...]
Although Marine le Pen lost her bid to qualify to Round 2 of the French presidential election, she created a sensation and spread anxiety in scoring 17.9%: a record 6.4 million people voted for her.
A characteristic of the National Front is that it is divisive and acrimonious at many levels.
Firstly It is a self-evident [...]
The second round of the French presidential campaign is coming fast (on May 6) so because we don’t like to break proper etiquette, it is high time to introduce François Hollande, the future winner if you trust the polls!
The archetype of the French politician
After Francois Hollande spent his early childhood in Normandy (in Rouen, famous [...]
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