The great crack-up
We inhabit an economy too small to deliver the social goods British people expect.
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How Sweden lost the plot
The country is no longer a model for the world.
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Anarchy unbound: the new scramble for Africa
Caught between climate change, migration and social upheaval, Niger and the Sahel are the crucible of Western failure.
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Keir Starmer will bury Blairism
In office, circumstances will force the Labour leader to break with his party’s liberal progressivism.
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Inside the assassination bureau
The 1922 Committee is adept at removing prime ministers. How long before its head prefect pays Rishi Sunak a visit?
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How Silvio Berlusconi privatised democracy
Throughout his career, the Italian politician combined extravagance and offence with a fundamental hollowness.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn’t want you to vote
An admission in the former minister’s recent National Conservativism conference speech was revealing.
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Making democracy safe from capitalism
Market radicals have established economic spaces free of democratic constraint. What would a politics of the zone look like if…
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The arrest of Imran Khan foreshadows a dark chapter for Pakistan
The surprise arrest has sparked riots, fears of torture and a violent crackdown.
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As strongman leaders around the world begin to fall, has authoritarianism peaked?
Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro both tested the democratic system and lost power. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could be next.
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The Tories’ voter ID laws have damaged our democracy
Far too many of those who were needlessly turned away at polling stations did not return to vote.
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The Red Christian
How Jacques Maritain, the most influential Catholic intellectual of the 20th century, changed the world.
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From nimbyism to the trans right debate, today’s politics is all about taking back control
What does it mean for our society when some people believe their word on what happens in their back yard…
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Why Tocqueville matters
Travel was a vital part of the French thinker’s political philosophy, but this has largely been forgotten in today’s secluded…
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Europe’s centrist parties let industry rot and society fragment. Now they’re being punished for it
In Italy, France, Germany and Britain, the flight of voters to the political extremes can be mapped on to neglected…
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The death of local government
Westminster has been systematically stripping councils of power, funding and stature for decades. As a result, our local politics is…
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Sam Fowles: “So much of public debate is disconnected from the truth”
The barrister on Indiana Jones, David Guetta and why you should always go to the bathroom before going into court.
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The real problem with Joe Biden’s democracy summit
The urgent work to defend global democracy needs more than a Zoom call.
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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Kenneth Roth on Harvard fellowship controversy: “My biggest concern is for academic freedom”
Although the university has reversed its block against the former head of Human Rights Watch, concerns over freedom of speech…
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