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Correspondents David Hayes 30 May 2014 The electoral victory of UKIP, an anti-immigrant and anti-Europe party, redraws Britain’s political map, says David Hayes
Correspondents David Hayes 8 April 2014 The Labour politician turned radical in mid-career and ended up a revered figure. His remarkable story can also reveal Britain to itself, says David Hayes Correspondents David Hayes 18 February 2014 After more than three years in the job, where is Britain’s Labour leader taking his party, asks David Hayes Correspondents David Hayes 3 September 2013 Syria’s war is opening new dividing lines in British politics, says David Hayes. Once the consequences play out, Ed Miliband might have lost more than has David Cameron Correspondents David Hayes 28 August 2013 Britain’s media coverage of Australia’s election is lively but limited, finds David Hayes
Correspondents David Hayes 25 July 2013 The scale of Britain’s problems leaves its party and electoral systems struggling to catch up, says David Hayes
Correspondents David Hayes 17 June 2013 Although it’s widely disdained, the very vagueness of David Cameron’s ambitious idea gives it resilience, says David Hayes Correspondents David Hayes 28 April 2013 The renowned director’s new film, which uses the socialist mood of 1945 to assail the world Margaret Thatcher created, is bad history and worse politics, says David Hayes Correspondents David Hayes 12 April 2013 The grim conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have dulled the instinct for armed intervention. But it still runs deep in British political culture, writes David Hayes Correspondents David Hayes 25 February 2013 The roots of ambivalence in Britain’s relationship with the European Union go deep, says David Hayes
Correspondents David Hayes 4 October 2012 The halfway point of Britain’s five-year parliament finds all of the parties under pressure to adapt to a changing environment, says David Hayes
Correspondents David Hayes 3 August 2012 A thrilling opening ceremony turned London’s mood from cynical to euphoric. But after artistic seduction comes political reduction, says David Hayes in London Correspondents David Hayes 18 June 2012 Britain’s season of high spectacle offers only a temporary respite from economic and political troubles, writes David Hayes From the archive David Hayes 19 April 2012 The celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s sixty years on the throne coincided with the best of recent times for the British monarchy Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 9 April 2012 The Iron Lady casts a long shadow, as David Cameron is finding in the lead-up to the next British election, writes Frank Bongiorno in London
Correspondents David Hayes 22 February 2012 A high-stakes constitutional tussle over the future of the United Kingdom is under way. The political transformation of Scotland since the 1950s will help to shape the outcome,…
Correspondents David Hayes 12 January 2012 A sympathetic film portrayal of Britain’s most divisive modern prime minister fits a broader mood of reappraisal of her years in power, says David Hayes Correspondents David Hayes 7 December 2011 London’s mayoral election might be overshadowed in 2012 by royal and Olympic pageants, but it’s more revealing of the city’s heartbeat Correspondents David Hayes 1 November 2011 An encampment around St Paul’s Cathedral in London casts a new light on this icon of British wartime defiance. But the epic days of the 1940s may have something to teach the… Correspondents David Hayes 18 September 2011 The tendency to press reality into a heritage mould traps England in political aspic, says David Hayes
Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 26 July 2011 Frank Bongiorno looks at the growing influence of Labour peer Maurice Glasman on the British opposition party
Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 21 July 2011 Is “merit” the new demarcation line in British society, asks Frank Bongiorno in London Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 5 June 2011 Another history war under another conservative government. Frank Bongiorno reports from London Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 28 March 2011 In London Frank Bongiorno looks at why Lionel Logue is portrayed as an Aussie larrikin in The King’s Speech Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 2 February 2011 The next casualties of Britain’s phone-hacking controversy could come from the media, politics or the police. But whoever falls next, it probably won’t be good news…
Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 14 December 2010 The protests in Britain highlight how much the Liberal Democrats have compromised to share power, writes Frank Bongiorno in London. And where does that leave the new…
Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 4 November 2010 We’re all in this together, the British chancellor told the nation as he announced sweeping cuts in spending. Britons aren’t up in arms yet, writes Frank … Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 29 September 2010 In London, Frank Bongiorno ponders the life of a highly productive expatriate who eventually returned to Australia, and those who have followed him Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 11 August 2010 In Australia, Julia Gillard replaced Kevin Rudd almost overnight. In Britain, the leadership transition is taking quite a lot longer Correspondents Frank Bongiorno 23 June 2010 The new British government began slashing spending this week. Meanwhile, Labour is left with the problem of defining what it stands for, writes Frank Bongiorno