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Three weeks and counting

With three weeks to go until the "Brexit" referendum, the polls are pointing to a close result.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Party matters, Political issues, Referenda Leave a comment 2 June 201628 January 2022

Scots clip the nationalists’ wings

Scottish voters swing from Labour to Conservative, and also deprive their Nationalist government of a majority.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe 1 Comment 8 May 201628 January 2022

Trump, and other updates

Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee, after his last major rival conceded in Indiana. That, plus updates from Ireland, Iran and Equatorial Guinea.

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Charles Richardson Africa, British Isles, Elections, Europe, Middle East, Party matters, United States 5 Comments 4 May 201628 January 2022

Results roundup

An irregular feature updating world electoral news. This week, the United States, Iran, Spain, Ireland and Jamaica.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Middle East, North America (ex-US), Party matters, Spain, United States Leave a comment 4 March 201628 January 2022

Grand coalition looms in Ireland

Ireland's general election has produced a parliament that looks as if it will be unworkable on any basis other than a coalition of the two major parties, historic enemies though they are.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Party matters 1 Comment 28 February 201628 January 2022

Election preview: Ireland

Ireland combines an idiosyncratic party system with an oddly familiar electoral system, but today's election could usher in a period of uncertainty.

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Fascism and the royals

No-one actually thinks the queen was a Nazi at age seven, but that's not what this particular controversy is about.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Ideas, Media, Political issues Leave a comment 20 July 201514 November 2023

The limits of Europe, part II

Russia and Britain, for all their obvious differences, have the same sort of equivocal relationship with Europe: unmistakably European powers, but with interests and traditions that draw them elsewhere.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Central and South Asia, Europe, Party matters, Political issues, Scandinavia 4 Comments 20 June 201528 January 2022

Well, that was easy

Contrary to expectation, Britain's Conservative Party wins a parliamentary majority. But the electoral system, very much as expected, failed to give people anything like what they voted for.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Electoral law, Europe 1 Comment 9 May 201528 January 2022

What to look for in Britain

Your handy guide to interpreting the British election results.

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