Quebec's minority pro-independence government loses an early election, ensuring that the province will stay part of Canada for a while yet.
Category: Political issues
Turkey and Russia: compare and contrast
Turkish local elections give its ruling party a vote of confidence, doing little to allay fears of growing authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin's Russia looks increasingly like a role model.
Trouble on the far right
Europe's far-right, anti-immigrant and eurosceptic parties are not one big happy family. Far from it.
Crimea’s gone, but it’s not World War III
Crimea is one thing, eastern Ukraine is quite another. And we're a long way off having to worry about Poland and the Baltic states.
Update on religion and discrimination
Religious fundamentalists don't like being caught by anti-discrimination laws, but they're happy to use the same laws for their own benefit.
Liberalism, Thatcherism and coalition
Britain's history of coalition politics is a fascinating one. It also helps to understand where the Liberal Democrats are coming from.
A tale of two elections
Very different elections in El Salvador and North Korea, yet each in its way signals the triumph of democracy.
Small sighs of relief in Ukraine
Tensions in Ukraine have abated slightly, with the prospects for Russian intervention beyond Crimea seen to have lessened. But there's still scope for things to go wrong, and plenty of argument about who's to blame for them getting this bad.
A Europhobe takes the floor
Daniel Hannan argues that Britain is the home of freedom while the EU is its enemy. Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as that.
Tribal politics on the right
Does politics always have to be driven by tribal hatreds, or is there scope for a more constructive way of doing things?
The World is Not Enough 