Richard T. Watson
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Richard T. Watson
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Writer/historian - 2024: The Year of Elections is out now https://books2read.com/u/4ArZGk #Election2024 | Next up: #ChurchHistory | Sci-fi/fantasy | Early Modern/Renaissance | The Book of the Not-Dead-Enough #amwriting
Plenty of big ideas at play here, and on the canvas of a live audience’s imagination!
August 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What I loved about this was that, given time, it might actually have produced the right answer! #UniversityChallenge
August 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
How recently was it that you could still flirt simply through the positioning of your postage stamp?
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Minster and the Shambles are the obvious ones, but a walk along some of the walls can also be good, plus pretty much any church.
July 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Next up in #Election2025 – the exciting conclusion to #Poland's 🇵🇱 presidential election comes tomorrow, June 1. Then #Burundi 🇧🇮 goes on June 5. But #Election2024 fans should watch the continuing fall-out from last year in #SouthKorea 🇰🇷 on June 3.
#Democracy #TheWorldVotes
May 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This #Election2025 round-up ends with a whimper; #Venezuela saw, like in #Election2024, a vote boycotted by most of the opposition, who called it a farce. Unsurprisingly, Maduro's party won big in parliamentary and gubernatorial races. 10/
May 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The opposition NDP edged a narrow lead in #Suriname's parliamentary #Election2025, giving their leader a slightly better chance of becoming president – but lengthy coalition talks will be delicate as each side tries to get a 2/3s majority for that vote. 9/
May 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#Portugal's 3rd election in 3 years brought another inconclusive result, with the governing PSD forming another fragile minority government, and the opposition Socialists the main victims this time of populist Chega's devouring of the mainstream. Will they go 4 for 4? 8/
May 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM