After years of drift towards extremism, Germany's far right party takes a step back towards the mainstream.
Category: Party matters
Germany’s centre-left searches for an identity
A new left-wing leadership for Germany's Social Democrats represents a step into the unknown and means trouble for Angela Merkel.
Why are we surprised?
Neither Australia nor the US wants to admit that it is part of a global movement. But despite its love of walls, Trumpism transcends national boundaries.
What Bernardi means (reprise)
Cory Bernardi leaves politics, with his mission largely fulfilled. The Australian right has been remade, if not exactly in his image, at least in something uncomfortably like it.
Tactical voting bonanza in Britain
Britain's December election is going to be a minefield of tactical voting. This is what happens when modern politics collides with a pre-modern electoral system.
Democrats worry about the centre
Some Democrats worry that their nominating process can be taken hostage by extremists in the way the Republicans' was four years ago. This is one of the problems of presidential systems.
And then there were four and a half
Three months out from the start of the US primary season, one of the top Democrat candidates has already bowed out, and another is barely hanging on.
Left, right and Brexit
Try yourself out on a 3-dimensional political diagnosis, and think about what this might mean for party realignment in Britain and elsewhere.
A Thuringian cliffhanger
A German state delivers a majority to the extremists after a knife-edge count. Coalition-building is going to be very interesting.
One more German election
An election on Sunday in the small German state of Thuringia may have big implications for European politics.
