The West has abandoned Hong Kong to totalitarianism
With the conviction of Jimmy Lai, can Britain offer the city anything more than moral lectures and second passports?
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Starmer has not yet proved he can solve our quicksand politics
Our political system is that we make huge mistakes, and then reverse them to make mistakes in the opposite direction
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Voting isn’t democratic. We need sortition
Randomly selecting people to rule would be a hell of a lot better than holding elections
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Compulsory voting can save British democracy
Our political crisis is grave. Muscular measures can solve it.
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South Korea’s chaos politics
Conspiracy, power grabs and violence threaten the country’s democracy.
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Jonathan Sumption: “Democracy is impossible for the state to satisfy”
The former judge on the limits of politics, the Chagos Islands and Trumpism.
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The left after Trump
In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive?
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The Syrian people yearn to take control of their own destiny
Bashar al-Assad has gone but, as elation begins to be edged out by anxiety, what comes after authoritarianism?
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A new government won’t fix France’s political crisis
The country’s malaise is grinding, long-term and has few exit routes.
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The Syrian crucible
Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime?
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Can Labour escape the incumbency curse?
Election results across the world leave MPs fearing they could be a one-term government.
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Violence looms over the US election
The Proud Boys, a militia which supports Donald Trump, has been making plans in the event he loses.
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Ralph Nader: “The election is between the fascism of Trump and the autocracy of Harris”
The four-time presidential candidate on why he holds out little hope for the future of American democracy.
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Georgia’s future depends on the European Union
Admitting ex-Soviet countries into the bloc is critical to Western security.
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The battle after Brexit
Alan Halsall was persecuted by the Electoral Commission for his part in the Leave campaign. His story reveals the rotten…
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How America resembles the dying Soviet Union
Like the former communist bloc, Western liberalism is slowly disintegrating.
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The crisis of the two presidents
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron have come to personify the chaos of the countries they seek to rule.
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Democracy begins with us
As a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I…
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How to fix a nation
As the country enters a new political era, leading thinkers explain what Labour must do to rebuild a broken Britain.
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Democratic renewal must be at the heart of a Labour government
We need enhanced checks on executive power to protect Britain’s constitution – and public trust in governments.
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