The Liberal postmortem

Publication of the Liberal Party's review of its 2025 federal election loss raises questions about just how deep its problems run.

Blog highlights, week 13

More blog highlights from recent years.

Donald Trump's first two wars have given him a taste for quick and easy success. The third looks like being very different.

Keir Starmer's Labour Party loses badly in a by-election, and the far right's supposed surge comes to very little.

The Netherlands gets a new government, but media coverage risks giving a misleading impression of its position.

More blog highlights for your reading enjoyment.

A setback for Donald Trump in the supreme court offers a possible guide to how other Trumpian excesses might fare in the future.

South Korea's former president is sentenced to life imprisonment, illustrating one way of dealing with insurrection at the top.

Australia's Liberal Party has a new shadow treasurer. What might it mean to call him a "neoliberal"?

The first of a new series revisiting highlights from the blog over the last six years.