Calum Paton is a History and Politics student at the University of Warwick. His writing focuses on American and British politics. Twitter: @Paton_Calum
IMAGE: Vice President Joe Biden | January 26, 2015 | Source: State Department photo/ Public Domain As the campaign was winding down and the Coronavirus pandemic was just heating up, Joe Biden threw down the gauntlet. Speaking at the final Democratic primary debate the former Vice President declared: “I will in fact pick a woman […]
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Coronavirus lockdown has seen the reluctant acceptance of the digital age, with businesses and workers across the world forced to accept working from home to combat the spread of the deadly virus. Even the infamously archaic institution of parliament has seen a swift shift towards digital committees, despite muttered expletives of MPs struggling with their […]
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IMAGE: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden | State Department photo/ Public Domain Heading into the 11th – and quite possibly final – Democratic debate the stakes were at their highest, with Bernie Sanders needing to prove that the race was not over, and Joe Biden having to arrest fears about his mental state, following a series […]
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Image: former Vice President Joe Biden. Source: State Department Photo/Public Domain. Less than a week ago the Democratic primary looked tied up, with Bernie Sanders winning all four opening states, claiming the most votes in each of them and securing the largest number of delegates heading into North Carolina and Super Tuesday. Yet just days […]
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Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Following the debacle of Iowa’s caucus results, there has been no such uncertainty with the results in New Hampshire, with a clear two horse race beginning to emerge. Just hours after the polls closed the results started trickling in, with early front-runner Bernie Sander’s once again proving the top choice among Democratic voters, […]
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Image: Keir Starmer QC. Picture credits: Chatham House | Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) The Labour party leadership starting gun was fired before election night was even over. At his own count in Islington, the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, announced that he would not lead his party into another election. Jeremy Corbyn […]
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With Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing the launch of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, speculation has been rife as to whether no. 45 will be the first President to ever be successfully removed from office. Although three presidents have been impeached in the House – Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton – none […]
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Just one hundred days on from Boris Johnson taking office, 1st November will be upon us; day one of his promised post Brexit Britain. His first days in office have been promising, the threatened no confidence motions have failed to materialise and he has thoroughly dispatched the leader of the opposition at the dispatch box – […]
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Crises exploded in Sudan over a month ago now and after weeks of violence, the West are still relatively lacklustre in their approach to the uprising. Although violence only erupted in the summer of 2019, unrest began to fester as late as December 2018, after president Bashir’s government introduced swathes of austerity measures on the […]
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And then there were ten. Last night saw the 10 candidates for the Conservative leadership officially confirmed following the closing of nominations, more than two weeks after the prime minister announced her resignation. The first round of voting will take place on Thursday this week after a round of hustings, with candidates required to attain […]
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