There is no proof that abolishing councils will work.

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China is back at the top of the political agenda. On Monday, the alleged Chinese spy known as “H6” at the heart of this ...

Weeks after President Yoon Suk-yeol brought the country to the brink of authoritarianism, lawmakers voted to impeach him.

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While Miliband and Haigh both hail from Labour’s soft left, Streeting is close to the party’s Blairite wing (though he ...

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Vladimir Putin bet on Bashar al-Assad’s murderous rule. Now Russia is shifting course.

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With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?

Postliberalism is, in the first instance, the recognition of this “postliberal” reality: that liberalism has mutated into an ...

From this mid-century turning point, the whole science of politics was adjusted to the dispiriting reality that history was ...