Salvini stumbles? The wider lessons from the Emilia-Romagna election
Italy is famous for its turbulent politics, for how parties and governments come and go at the whim of the country’s proportional system....
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Fake News: Social Media's impact on Democracy
As Goebbels stated: ‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be...
Polish elections: a new chapter?
In Poland’s most recent election, the ruling right-wing party Law and Justice (PiS) narrowly won a second term in office. The election...
The EU elections were not a victory for leave or remain
Nigel Farage was not wrong when he stood defiant declaring that, “there’s massive message here”, the day after the election results came...
The public will vote for Brexit again in the European elections
They were never supposed to be taking place. The EU elections mark a dark time in our nation’s history, epitomising the betrayal of...
Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential Election: Corruption and Continuity
Nigeria’s presidential election, initially planned for 16 February 2019, was dramatically delayed by the Independent National Electoral...
Bernie 2020: How the former fringe candidate will tackle Trump
For most, this was the worst kept secret in US politics. People ‘felt the Bern’ in 2016 and it is fair to assume that the Democratic...
The Reason for the Thai Royalty’s Family Feud
Like many of its South-East Asian counterparts, Thailand is a state that, while possessing pretensions for democracy, has never fully...
Roger Stone: The Latest Victim of the Mueller Probe
In the very early hours of January 25th, as the sun was about to rise over Fort Lauderdale, Florida, federal agents waited outside the...
PROFILE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Twitter Star, Future President?
Anybody with a tangential interest in United States’ politics at present will be aware of newly-elected New York Congresswoman...
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