A century on, Mussolini's heirs look set to return to power in Italy. How worried should we be?
Author: Charles Richardson
September electoral roundup
Our monthly roundup of election news covers Kenya, Canada, Brazil and Austria.
Democrats United?
Scott Morrison's new job has largely past without comment, but it's worth noting for what it says about the state of centre-right politics worldwide.
Anti-vaxers win one
Liechtenstein votes against authorisation of Covid-related restrictions that were no longer in force anyway.
Voting in the desert
A by-election tomorrow in Western Australia raises some interesting issues, and incidentally reveals just how empty much of Australia is.
Sweden wraps up
The right-of-centre opposition wins a narrow majority in Sweden, but its task of forming a government may not be straightforward.
Another Swedish cliffhanger
A knife-edge result in Sweden sees the right better placed to form government, but it will be a couple of days before final figures are available.
Election preview: Sweden
Sweden's voters look set to return a parliament very similar to the last one, which may or may not be enough for its centre-left government to hold on.
The wages of insurrection
A New Mexico court enforces the disqualification clause of the fourteenth amendment for the first time in a century. Much bigger targets may be in sight.
A Thatcherite in power?
Britain gets a new prime minister today with the elevation of Liz Truss to the Conservative leadership. What does it all mean?
The World is Not Enough 