O Canada!
Most of the predictions for the Canadian election I’d seen were for a continuation of Conservative minority government, with all the interest lying in whether the leftish National Democratic Party would overtake the Liberals, as polls had indicated. The first [...]
Quick link: Tim Pawlenty the movie trailer
It’s a long, long, long way to November 6, 2012, but Republicans seeking their party’s nomination are already popping up with campaign ads. And this spot by ex-governor Tim Pawlenty has to be seen to be believed:
Piggy in the middle: The UK Lib Dems and student fees
I think the only real coverage we’ve had of the vote in the House of Commons the other day on trebling the cap on student fees to 9000 pounds (with a huge clawback of basic teaching funding to ensure that [...]
George Brandis on the Tea Party: “legitimate but very heated criticism”
The Liberal Party of Australia, for at least a decade and a half now, has been more than happy to have its own little free trade agreement with the US Republicans, borrowing campaign and political strategies as needed, regardless in [...]
US Midterms
So the Democrats have lost the House, but it looks like they’ll retain the Senate.
Ed Miliband Labour’s new Leader
The UK Labour party has elected Ed Miliband its new leader, in a narrow victory over his older brother David. Mili-E (as he’s dubbed in the UK blogosphere) won 50.65% of the vote in Labour’s electoral college, which comprises the [...]
Walden Bello on the political consequences of stagnation
Walden Bello is a senior analyst at Philippine think-tank Focus on the Global South, the author of more than 14 books, and was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for “… outstanding [...]
Peter Mandelson’s The Third Man
Peter Mandelson‘s memoir, The Third Man, was timed for maximum impact, being released just after the British election this year. Mandelson’s musings were condemned as unhelpful by the full gamut of UK Labour figures (including Tony Blair, who was perhaps [...]
Palin For America!
If you follow American politics at all, you’ll undoubtedly have heard of Christine O’Donnell’s win in the Republican primary for the Delaware Senate seat.
You may have even seen this video from the mid 1990s discussing O’Donnell’s youthful obsession with, um, “purity”:
How do coalitions work?
With Australia staring down the barrel of the first federal coalition government in 70 years, lots of people are asking “how does a coalition work?” New Zealand has had coalition governments of one form or another since 1995, so we [...]
Democratise or die: the future of the ALP
One of the ironies of the British election, as I noted at the time, was that a campaign and a result which seemed to portend an end to politics as usual brought forth a reactionary result – the coalescence of [...]
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