Elections are easy to rig, and they give authoritarian leaders a veneer of legitimacy they badly need.
- LSE Fellow in Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Decades – even centuries – have gone into building the diplomatic protocols on which we all rely. Is all that work being undone?
Labour’s leader has a renewed mandate to put his party at the vanguard of the left – but others have walked that road before.
Has the US’s apparently invincible populist demagogue finally hit an iceberg?
The Republicans’ nominee has opened up a huge lead over Hillary Clinton among white voters – but that may not mean much in the end.
Theresa May’s decision to make a Foreign Scretary of the notoriously troublesome Brexiter-in-Chief is a huge gamble.
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