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Rishi redux
Michael Jacobs
26 October 2022
Does Britain’s youngest prime minister for more than 200 years have what it takes to end the country’s crisis of leadership?
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The Truss effect
Michael Jacobs
8 October 2022
The British PM and her allies have launched an enormous and potentially disastrous experiment
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Trouble at the OECD
Michael Jacobs
29 September 2022
Distinguished economists are protesting at Mathias Cormann’s reorientation of the international organisation
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Who is Liz Truss — and why?
Michael Jacobs
5 September 2022
Does the new British PM have the capacity to deal with Britain’s gathering crisis?
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Glasgow kiss
Michael Jacobs
15 November 2021
Is it finally the end of the line for fossil fuels? Our correspondent’s Glasgow COP26 wrap-up
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“System change, not climate change!”
Michael Jacobs
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
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Closing the Glasgow gap
Michael Jacobs
4 November 2021
With the national leaders departing, the climate talks are commencing in earnest. And the optimists see grounds for hope
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The Glasgow paradox
Michael Jacobs
27 October 2021
What exactly is up for negotiation at next week’s COP26 conference?
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Between the idea and the reality
Michael Jacobs
14 October 2021
The British PM will need to shake off his party’s deepest beliefs to reform the British economy
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Boris Johnson’s high-stakes gamble
Michael Jacobs
29 September 2021
Britain’s shape-shifting PM wanted to take the lead on climate, but he didn’t anticipate how hard that would be
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Germany’s arithmetic
Klaus Neumann
28 September 2021
Almost every party claims to have done well in Sunday’s election, but forming a new government requires an unprecedented coalition of three parties
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Justin Trudeau’s brush with oblivion
Jonathan Malloy
24 September 2021
The Canadian PM squeaks back into office after facing his most formidable opponent so far
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Disappearing act
Klaus Neumann
14 September 2021
In the second part of our series on this month’s German election, our correspondent wonders about what has been left out of the debate
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More Merkel?
Klaus Neumann
31 August 2021
Our correspondent is not impressed by the choices on offer for September’s German election
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Like father, like son?
Jonathan Malloy
22 August 2021
Justin Trudeau is hoping history will repeat itself. It’s quite a gamble
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A party on the edge
Peter Kellner
24 May 2021
A strategy exists to revive UK Labour’s electoral fortunes, but would it work?
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The life of an exile
Klaus Neumann
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
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Champions no more
Klaus Neumann
13 April 2021
Our correspondent detects parallels between the fortunes of German football and the travails of the Merkel government
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Waiting for “that big lout” to rise up
Klaus Neumann
28 March 2021
What two men tell us about the evolution of German right-wing populism
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The resistance that began with a bang
Thomas Kean
5 March 2021
Letter from Yangon
| Resolute citizens continue to face off with an intransigent military in Myanmar
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Enemies of the people
Klaus Neumann
15 December 2020
A sharp rise in Covid-19 cases shows how a small minority is exercising outsized influence in Germany
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Cancelling Bismarck
Klaus Neumann
18 November 2020
Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene”
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Two Americas, one existential crisis
Nicole Hemmer
10 November 2020
Red America and Blue America have become much more than clichés
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Restoring American democracy, one step at a time
Nicole Hemmer
5 November 2020
With a narrow Biden win looking increasingly likely, what are the prospects for progress on the issues that matter?
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Licensed to govern
Colin James
19 October 2020
Armed with a historic mandate, can Jacinda Ardern bring about the change she promised in 2017?
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America’s electoral counter-revolution
Nicole Hemmer
19 October 2020
What the Republican Party is attacking is democracy itself
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Captain Abbott’s pick
David Hayes
2 October 2020
Britain’s man-gets-job frenzy was less about Tony Abbott than it seemed
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Violence’s cheerleader
Nicole Hemmer
1 October 2020
The debate gave us a clearer idea of what a second Trump term could look like
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The prime minister of good intentions
Jonathan Malloy
28 September 2020
As a second wave threatens, Canada’s Justin Trudeau negotiates choppy political waters
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Chaos theory
Nicole Hemmer
31 August 2020
Donald Trump is mounting the only kind of campaign he knows — despite its failure in 2018
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