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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.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Scandinavia 1 Comment 9 September 2022

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?

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Constitutional law, Europe, Ideas, Party matters, Personalities 5 Comments 6 September 2022

Death of a liberator

The last Soviet leader leaves a legacy that will never be forgotten.

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Charles Richardson Europe, Personalities, United States, War and peace 1 Comment 31 August 202220 April 2026

Populism or fascism?

Does Italy's recent experience show populists losing ground to the far right? Or is that a misunderstanding of what "populism" is all about?

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Charles Richardson Europe, Ideas, Italy, Party matters, Spain Leave a comment 19 August 2022

Kosovo is not Crimea

A war scare in the Balkans offers a warning against being misled by the force of bad analogies.

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Mr Salvini & the Russians

Italy's three right-of-centre parties are co-operating to try to win government, but their very different positions on the war in Ukraine may herald a serious problem.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Italy, Party matters, War and peace 2 Comments 8 August 20228 August 2022

Realignment and the Tories

Britain's Conservative Party looks like opting for a leader who, if not herself a populist, will preserve the Brexit-led populist ascendancy.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Party matters 8 Comments 1 August 202221 October 2022

Italy heads to the polls

An early election has been scheduled for September in Italy after the collapse of the Draghi government. Unless their opponents can pull something out of the hat, the right is set for a majority – possibly a fractious one.

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A Tory race in four

Four remaining candidates are fighting for the leadership of the British Conservative Party, representing an interesting mix of diversity and uniformity.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Party matters 2 Comments 18 July 202219 July 2022

Johnson wraps up

As Boris Johnson comes to the end of the road, his failure is symptomatic of a larger failure of modern politics.

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