Sweden's broadcaster SVT2 and Netflix vie for a spot in the caption competition hall of fame

How to avoid telling an ageing dictator that he is no longer in power

How the Raving Loony Society and Screaming Lord Sutch kickstarted the proliferation of joke political candidates in the UK

The exploits of the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society

Belgium is setting records for time spent without a central government - and nobody minds

The time when Fiji's independence was saved by the meticulous British filing system

700 years after his death, Italy's famous writer Dante Alighieri has another busy year

Russia's regions have great flags

Good Flag, Bad Flag - the five timeless principles of flag design

A homage to some of the greatest political parties in history

Star Wars, Muammar Gaddafi, and a Sandcrawler

An Olympic torch from underpants soaked in kerosene

Subtitles gone wrong create a particularly silly moment in Austrian politics

Everything you love about the 19th century: problematic successions, nation states, and Otto von Bismarck

An excursion into the wondrous world of Canadian heraldry

A celebration of the 2020 Brexit deal

Stories of suspicious salmon and fifty Flemish fishermen

A brief summary of the most extraordinary pets to inhabit the White House

How to get permission to die and reincarnate

Making the case for next year's Nobel Peace Prize winners