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Graham HryceRT.com |
Burnham has arrived on a wave of hype, but his vague promises and nostalgia-heavy agenda look no more workable than Starmer’s
One Nation recently shot to the top of the country’s political ratings – but its program is disruptive and unrealistic
Mass immigration, elite contempt, stagnant living standards, and deep class division still drive the frustration that shook Britain in 2016
Burnham may bring fresh momentum, but the same party splits and elite agenda will grind him down, too
As the party implodes under inept leadership, the former PM has come up with his own ten commandments – which will only poison it further
After a brutal electoral collapse, Labour is tearing itself apart – reviving old wars and betting its future on a desperate leadership stunt
Just as his 2024 election victory signaled the demise of the Conservative Party, his loss last week portends the death of Labour
Rana Dasgupta maps the decay of Britain and America, but his vision of what comes next is far less convincing than his diagnosis
For the Australian right, Ben Roberts-Smith is a beacon of virtue. For the left, he is a murderer. Both will use him as a culture-war grunt.
In his famous political tract – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, published in 1852 – Karl Marx proffered the generalization that...
Recent events have confirmed that US President Donald Trump is the ultimate political pragmatist. Since his inauguration in January, Trump has endured...
This week the youthful and charismatic Democrat politician Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York city. Mamdani’s victory was, in one sense,...
Perhaps the most noticeable feature of politics in the West in recent years has been the swift and irreversible demise of traditional conservative...
Recent events in China have had an extraordinary and revealing effect on Australian domestic politics and invite comparisons with the crises that have...
The Trump administration has been having a rough few months. Domestic chaos – fuelled by the use of black clad, masked para-military squads to...
Political developments over the past few weeks in Australia suggest that we may be witnessing the embryonic emergence of a new populist party in this...
Australia’s Labor government was returned to office at last Saturday’s federal election in a landslide win. Labor now holds 90 seats in the House...
Australian voters go to the polls next Saturday – voting in this country is compulsory, unlike in most Western democracies – but this is not a...