The AfD’s rise is the centre left’s final warning
The surging far-right is a symptom of a world slipping out of progressive control – and comprehension.
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Has Biden buried the American left?
Scattered and listless, the movement this defeated president leaves behind must regroup quickly.
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The strange death of the centre right
Moderate conservatives have allowed themselves to be marginalised by their populist rivals.
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Is Sinn Féin the worst opposition party in Europe?
As incumbent governments fell across the world, Ireland’s establishment held firm.
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Can Ireland stave off populism forever?
As the country heads to the polls some voters want to rip up the status quo.
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Ireland’s liberal centre conceals something darker
Who will represent the country’s fragmented edges?
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Twilight of the American elite
The revival of liberalism cannot be conducted on Trumpian terms.
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The implosion of centrism has left Labour in unmapped territory
The world the party expected to join when it came to power no longer exists.
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Why Tory centrists are hopeless at leadership elections
Conservative MPs try to second-guess the membership rather than voting with conviction.
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Kamala Harris’s flawed centrism
Boasting of Goldman Sachs’ and Dick Cheney’s approval will not win over the working-class voters she needs.
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Nigel Farage’s Tory takeover is in peril
Conservative leadership contenders are signalling that the door will not be open to the Reform leader.
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The roar from below
How Emmanuel Macron turned France to the hard right.
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The Conservative Party may not survive this election
A deepening identity crisis has left the Tories unable to appeal to either centrists or populists.
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There’s nothing moderate about “centrism”
David Cameron and Rishi Sunak stand for a rampant market individualism that disregards the common good.
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Rishi Sunak is demolishing the centre he once embodied
The Prime Minister has signalled that technocratic pragmatism has had its day. This is the return of politics.
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Germany’s centrist parties are fuelling extremism
Treating populist supporters as deplorables is a gift to the far left and far right.
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Does Tony Blair’s new centrist project have any answers?
At the former PM’s Future of Britain conference, it felt as if the past 15 years of British politics never…
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In defence of centrism
Far from being outmoded Thatcherites, most centrists are sophisticated and adaptable thinkers.
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Tony Blair’s technophilia is a dead end for the left
His deterministic embrace of technology leaves many voters out in the cold.
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