Following the week’s elections in Britain and France, the centre has held for now, but it’s clear incumbents face severe challenges.
With exit polls predicting a landslide win, new PM Keir Starmer’s dull but steady approach seems to have paid off, but what does it mean for UK politics, and the rest of the world?
While a UK Labour government would undoubtedly pursue closer alignment with the European Union, there are strategic and ideological reasons that will keep the UK engaged in the Indo-Pacific region.
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
Like Britain recently, Australia has had more than its share of leadership excesses and upheavals over the past 15 years, but could that phase be passing?
Rishi Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post, but he faces a host of problems at home – as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
In the time warp that’s the current state of British politics, another prime minister has gone, but the same party, bereft of ideas, is still in office, clinging to power for its own sake.
The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Liz Truss has defeated Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister – but her victory makes the Conservatives much more likely to lose the next election.
As British PM Boris Johnson copped criticism from both sides of the political aisle, it was refreshing to see a recognisable form of the Rule of Law deployed that didn’t seek to capitalise on the concept’s inherent ambiguity.
For all the public anger over the “Partygate’ scandal, Johnson’s weakened position owes much to the aftershocks of Brexit.
How do we enable people to make evidence-based, health and life-protecting choices in a pandemic?
Governments need to assess the consequences of their actions against the wellbeing of the most at-risk from the social and economic costs of the policy response to the pandemic.
Negotiating a trade deal within 12 months is wishful thinking on the British PM's part.
As Boris Johnson's tactics cause deep rifts within the Conservative Party, the UK faces a Brexit of radical conservatism – and plenty of risks.
Is there still such a thing as “the British people” in the singular? The deep divisions on Brexit highlight a case of the revolution eating itself.
If Boris Johnson becomes British PM, the most likely outcome is a no-deal Brexit leavened with the rhetoric of past and future glories of the UK.
Amid the Brexit mess, Britain needs the Commonwealth and Australia like no time since World War II.
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