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Is the centre-right dying?

Centre-right parties form an important bulwark of democracy. Are they on the way out?

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Charles Richardson Europe, Ideas, Party matters Leave a comment 22 February 2023

Further adventures of neoliberalism

Jim Chalmers opens up a debate, yet again, on "neoliberalism". An attempt at clarification.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Ideas, Political issues Leave a comment 10 February 2023

2022 in review

A review of the major electoral happenings on 2022, with particular reference to the invasion of Ukraine.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Ideas, War and peace 1 Comment 3 January 2023

Individualism and the “libertarians”

Are Australia's "libertarians" really authoritarians in disguise? Upper house voting in Victoria provides a clue.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Electoral law, Ideas, Party matters Leave a comment 17 November 2022

Putinists right and left

Far left and far right again turn out to have more in common than you might think, including a weakness for Vladimir Putin.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Ideas, War and peace 3 Comments 13 October 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 4 Comments 6 September 2022

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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Libertarians against freedom

In an eerie parallel to what has already happened to the Republican Party, America's Libertarian Party falls into the hands of the enemies of liberty.

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Back to the 1980s

Themes of the Cold War era have returned to relevance with the invasion of Ukraine. Are there lessons to be learnt?

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Looking back on neoliberalism

Is the "neoliberal" era ending, and was there ever such a thing to start with?

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