Helvetin Pastori/Pastor of Hell

Well, it's been a while since I last posted anything. So, where have I been? Well, apart from school, I recently got a part time job, which has limited my already limited free time even more. I was also sick for a week, which is something that normally doesn't happen to me. So quite simply, I haven't had the time, the energy or the motivation to really focus on writing anything.   That being said, I'm back and as the title suggests, there have been some interesting developments in Finnish politics, which I've been planning to cover for a while. First, let's start with Paavo Väyrynen. You may remember that he was one of the candidates in the recent presidential election, and that in my posts about the election, I gave him some special attention (links at the end).  The reason is pretty much the outcome of the election. Since it was pretty clear from the beginning that president Sauli Niinistö would win re-election, the election lacked that sense of heightened e...

Okay, let's address the elephant in the room: it's nearly two weeks since my previous post. The reason is that I recently went back to school. I've been unemployed for the last six months so I decided to do something to increase my chances of finding work. Also, while my plan was to talk about Trump, I recently read some news regarding Catalonia. To those who are not familiar with the situation, here's some background to the situation. Catalonia is, at least officially, an autonomous part of Spain, To be clear, Spain is divided into multiple autonomous regions with varying decrees of self determination. This is because the country is culturally very diverse. The idea behind the division of power is to keep the country in tact while still making sure that the rights of the different linguistic and cultural minorities are respected. You can probably already guess that not everybody is too happy with the current situation. As a result, many of the autonomous communities ...