Yesterday Queen Elizabeth the Second died. She wasn’t Australia’s second Queen named Elizabeth, since the other Elizabeth reigned before Australia was ‘discovered’. Despite the fact that we have had no other Elizabeth’s we call her the second because the monarchy is an embarrassing relic of British rule. In this article I’ll be laying out why…
The French system of allocation of power is pretty strange: despite the very first article of its constitution stipulating that “Its organisation is decentralised.”, France is one of the least decentralised countries in the democratic world, even for a unitary state. The current political establishment was set up in the middle of the Algerian War…
-A modest proposal furthering Putin’s ideas to their logical consequences: Strasbourg and Kehl are one people, who have time and again been greedily ripped apart by the powers that be. These people have been separated by far-off emperors and politicians trying to hold back Greater Strasbourg. The most recent separation, in 1953, was certainly the…
Everybody’s talking about the current French elections, but as far as I can see, no one is talking about the effect these elections could have on the Andorran monarchy. The President of France, whomever it is, automatically becomes a coprince of Andorra; a landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees, situated between Spain and France. The coprince…
I’ve already talked about why democracy works, and its flaws, but I’ve hardly addressed the potential to improve democracy further. In this article I’ll be doing just that! Citizen Journalism: As I talked about in the previous article, the press is extremely important in upholding democracy. While the internet’s contributions to this are often overlooked…
À la lumière de l’invasion de l’Ukraine par Poutine, certains d’entre vous se demandent peut-être ce que vous pouvez faire pour aider l’Ukraine en ce moment crucial. Il est facile de se sentir impuissant lorsque ce conflit se passe si loin de vous, mais vous pouvez aider. Voici quelques façons d’y parvenir : – Faire un…
In light of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, some of you might be wondering what you can do to help Ukraine in this vital moment. It’s easy to feel helpless when this conflict is happening so far away, but you can help. Here are some ways to do just that: -Donate: You can do what our…
How would you describe yourself to someone who’s never heard of you before? I make videos on Youtube about urban planning and politics from a left perspective, and also dunk on Elon Musk a lot. Lately people started calling me the “Giga Chad of Urban Planning”, a moniker I can’t help but accept. Why did…
El 7 de septiembre del año pasado entró en vigor la nueva “Ley Bitcoin” de El Salvador. Esta ley convierte al Bitcoin en moneda de curso legal en El Salvador, junto con el dólar estadounidense. Esta controvertida ley fue presentada a la asamblea legislativa por el presidente Nayib Bukele, líder populista de El Salvador. El…
On the 7th of September last year, El Salvador’s new “Bitcoin Law” went into effect. This law makes Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, alongside the US dollar. This controversial law was introduced to the legislative assembly by President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s populist leader. President Bukele is infamous for his “attempted coup” on the…