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From George Orwell to Alastair Campbell, our experts recommend books that will inspire youth into thinking politically.
Britons divide sharply over whether exclusion from ordinary living standards counts as poverty.
The security of politicians has increasingly been in the spotlight.
Prime ministers aren’t lasting long in the job these days – and data shows that the UK is slipping on some measures of governance.
While federal Labor remains ahead in most polls three months after the budget, Victorian Labor is trailing the Liberals ahead of the November state election.
Farage avoided the count, but will face a re-opened probe into his finances after winning the Clacton byelection.
While their antics might make us pay attention to election campaigns, how did we end up with joke candidates as part of our political culture?
Generating hope as he tours the country this summer could be pay off for the prime minister come election time.
Satirical candidates are part of a longstanding tradition in British politics.
In the immediate aftermath of Labor’s leadership spill, new polls bring better news for the struggling Coalition.
The days of long-established relationships between the UK prime minister and the US president are long gone.
We have entered what might be called the ‘post-first’ era of minority representation.
Andy Burnham says his government is going to fix it for good. What would that take?
A week is a very long time in British politics these days.
You can’t gain power without also gaining enemies, as Machiavelli pointed out.
With his first speech, the new prime minister tried to lay down a marker as a different kind of leader.
It is tempting to see Manchesterism as the story of Burnham. But that misses the bigger picture.
After a post-Press Club address slump, One Nation has picked up again in the polls.
The ‘king of the North’ faces multiple challenges in a fragmented UK when he becomes the next prime minister.
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