The number of uncontested elections in the US is quite extraordinary… I had no idea. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/u...

A Democracy With Everything but a Choice

A new analysis of American elections finds that in half of all races for partisan offices, a candidate runs unopposed. Democrats are the biggest no-shows.

La Chine mise sur l’Afrique pour redessiner l’ordre mondial www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

La Chine mise sur l’Afrique pour redessiner l’ordre mondial

Une cinquantaine de dirigeants africains sont reçus à Pékin pour le Forum sur la coopération sino-africaine, qui s’ouvre mercredi.

Anyone wanting to do research on business/organisational records who doesn't have access to funding can apply to the Business Archives Council's Research Support Bursary, simple Googleform to apply by 20/9 businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/activitiesob... Please fo contact me with any questions!

Type the year you turned 18 in the gif bar and post the best one you see. (Wasn’t 18 quite yet on the day though)

a soccer game is being played on a field with coca-cola ads on the sidelines

Alt: Basile Boli wins the European Cup for Olympique de Marseille.

Voting has opened for the National Trust's annual elections & members' resolutions. Deadline is 11:59 pm on Friday 25 October. As in past years, so-called 'Restore Trust' is running candidates, identified in the banner on their website. Quick-vote is a quick way to vote against RT, if so minded.

‘There’s a lot to be built still’: architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘There’s a lot to be built still’: architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future

One of the continent’s most-sought after designers draws inspiration from the traditional mud-brick building to create modern, sustainable structures

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Crise démocratique : comme un parfum de bonapartisme… - AOC media

En refusant d’endosser le rôle d’arbitre et d’honnête courtier qui découle du nouvel équilibre des pouvoirs né de sa défaite aux élections législatives, le chef de l’Etat remet dangereusement en cause...

« Macron c’est Non! Aucune Prolongation du Macronisme ne sera Tolérée! » www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20...

Stéphane Troussel, président PS de Seine-Saint-Denis : « Nous ne soutiendrons aucune prolongation du macronisme »

Porte-parole du PS et patron du conseil départemental de Seine-Saint-Denis, Stéphane Troussel prévient que les socialistes censureront tout gouvernement, même conduit par Bernard Cazeneuve, qui appliq...

Swedish is like Linux. It's quite obvious how the language works, and you can make your own words. French is Apple. Try to make your own modifications and they will SEND YOU TO JAIL. English is your grandparents' PC. We have no idea how it works. Where did all these weird plug-in words come from??

I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.