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.
It might sound like difficult terrain, but ideas of nationhood can be progressive as well as regressive, and could help bind Australians ahead of the Voice referendum.
Politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
As the Voice to Parliament referendum nears, the impact of what’s now known as the Anglosphere continues to have major implications for Australia’s domestic policy settings and institutionalised sense of self.
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.
The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
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.
Last year, despite closed borders, shuttered businesses, and their first recession in 26 years, Australians became more optimistic.
Although it was a century ago, there are parallels between the Spanish Flu pandemic and COVID-19. What was it like on the frontline for our healthcare workers this time around – and what have we learnt as a society?
In our last episode, we pondered a world without art and now we hear from two people who push the boundaries in fields you wouldn't normally consider creative.
Could fake news destroy our democracy? Dr Susan Carland finds out in our first episode in series two of What Happens Next?
Negotiating a trade deal within 12 months is wishful thinking on the British PM's part.
Until the two giants change, Twitter's political ad ban will have little effect on elections around the globe.
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.
Will legislation and the Christchurch Call tech giants' agreement have a significant impact in combating violent online content, or muddy the internet waters?
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.
Despite an inability to improve his popularity rating, the strength of the Labor leader's team could make for a successful government.
Around the world, populist-nationalist politicians are stoking anti-immigration sentiment through scaremongering.
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