July 2024
Voters didn’t flock to Starmer and he knows it
Labour can claim a big mandate after its landslide victory, but the UK’s new government must also quickly prove itself, after winning just 34 per cent of the vote.
Starmer can help Britain redeem itself
With a towering majority, a well-disciplined team and a ruthless instinct for power, Keir Starmer can restore some of the respect the Tories destroyed.
Labour’s sweeping victory in Britain is terrible news for Peter Dutton
The UK general election was fought over problems that are familiar to many Australian voters, which is why the outcome looks bad for the Coalition.
How will Keir Starmer change the UK?
As a Labour government gets set to take the reins after 14 years of Conservative rule, what will Starmer do with power in his first 100 days and beyond?
Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories
Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall – and leaves a mixed legacy.
Feckless liberals are to blame for Biden’s downfall
The left worldwide ignores problems on its own side, and recent history has turned on that failure.
June 2024
Even Rishi Sunak could lose his seat, according to some polls
Seat-by-seat analysis by Savanta and Electoral Calculus found the Tories are on track to win just 53 seats in next month’s vote, an all-time low for the party.
January 2024
The welcome demise of big-government Toryism
When Rishi Sunak cut high-speed rail, commentators wrongly saw it as a betrayal of the red wall vision. But the nonsensical red-wall agenda was never needed.
January 2022
Boris Johnson’s fall would not change the Conservative agenda
The British PM’s lockdown breaches and failings may leave him terminally discredited but few in his party are questioning the manifesto on which he won.
October 2021
Why Boris flies where Starmer flops
Britain’s Falstaffian Prime Minister reaps gains from Labour’s progressive self-righteousness.
July 2021
Labour leader Starmer lives to fight another day after byelection win
Keir Starmer was facing a potential leadership challenge if a second Labour stronghold had fallen to Boris Johnson’s Tories.
May 2021
Progressive left faces extinction: Blair
Politics parties of the left must modernise their economic message or face marginalisation, even extinction, writes former British prime minister Tony Blair.
Boris Johnson gets boost from byelection win in Labour heartland
The result shows Labour leader Keir Starmer struggling to overcome the schisms opened up by Brexit, which have driven battlers towards the Tories.
October 2020
British Labour leader Starmer boots out Jeremy Corbyn
The hard-left former leader downplayed a damning report into anti-Semitism on his watch, falling foul of Keir Starmer's 'zero tolerance' policy.
May 2020
Johnson should admit government's COVID-19 failures
To earn the trust of all voters, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must stop the verbal obfuscation and statistical trickery.
April 2020
Landslide victory for Britain's new Labour leader Keir Starmer
The new opposition leader has offered to work with Boris Johnson to steer the country through the national emergency.
February 2020
Democrats turn cannons on front-runner Sanders
We'll be living with the 'catastrophe' of a Bernie Sanders nomination for 30 years, said Michael Bloomberg.
Investors wake in fright to Sanders presidency
Donald Trump wants Democrats to pick Bernie Sanders so he can pillory him as a dangerous radical. But what if America is ready to elect a democratic socialist?
Democrats bearish on Sanders really should know better
The past four years in politics have taught us to expect the unexpected.
January 2020
Bushfires burn across British consciousness
Politicians and ordinary punters alike have been mesmerised by a crisis unfolding 17,000 km away.