Elections

Did you listen to the first Presidential Debate of 2020? 2020 has been a very, very, very weird election year. Plagues, protests and pompous presidents have dominated the news cycles. The candidates for the top job just met in the first…

Steve and Richie have talked an awful lot about politicians and what they do for a living on What Am Politics; yelling, lawing, voting etc. But they've yet to get into the nitty gritty of how someone goes from being a "Normal Person" to the…

From the local county councils in Ireland to the Indonesian Presidency, seems like everyone around the world is hitting the voting booth. This week on What Am Politics, Steve and Richie bring you the good, the bad, and the bizarre in a…

Yes, the buffoonery and bloviating that comes from the Oval Office can be quite distracting, but there is so much more to running the United States than the antics of the tangerine toddler. The US Houses of Congress creates laws, holds…

The world moves fast. If you don’t stop and read the papers, you might just miss a few things. So with this in mind, let’s take you through a few of those global stories that you may have missed over the last week. Facebook and disturbing…

It's general election season, I love it, it's like Christmas comes once every 5 years. As a successful politician - oh hold up! You didn't know? Yes, I Alison Spittle ran for election. Moate Community School was my constituency. Westmeath…