Courts have pushed back against attempts by leaders to bypass the legislature outside the US too.
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Charismatic, controversial and endlessly quotable, Charles Fox built a political movement around himself.
Humour helps politicians create emotional connections and energise voters who feel let down by traditional politics.
Even though the position is now coveted by politicians, Londoners don’t feel their mayors are delivering.
From golf course antics to constitutional power grabs, Donald Trump’s rule-bending reveals how narcissistic politics risks breaking democracy itself.
In 2020, British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t recovered its budget or expertise.
Personality politics only ever ends one way.
For a long time, political scientists have assumed politicians will do anything to avoid blame. But that’s no longer how they operate.
The new Labour government has cut winter fuel payments and dropped a cap on social care costs. What do these changes mean for pensioners?
Electoral defeat comes for us all in the end.
Polling hasn’t improved for the UK’s Conservatives throughout the campaign. meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be heading for electoral disaster.
Will Labour’s pothole politics provide the meaningful infrastructure investment desperately needed in Britain?
Cleo Watson, former co-deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, was fined in the infamous “PartyGate” scandal involving gatherings held at government buildings while the United Kingdom was under a pandemic…
Despite a decade of Northern Powerhouse and levelling up, England remains thoroughly divided.
Study shows that even people who didn’t vote for Boris Johnson in 2019 were swayed by his grin.
The polls predict the UK is headed for a change of government. If Labour wins, would much change for Australia?
It could happen to anyone – and that’s really the point.
Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
Just as the UK looks set to return to grown up politics, everyone else is installing radicals.
After years of tumult in the ruling Conservative party, Labour looks set to take office. But it is no sure bet, and could be off the back of a large scale disaffection from the wider public.
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