Coalitions and the Coalition, part one

Australia has made baby steps towards a multi-party system, but real coalition politics is still remote from the way most of our politicians think.

Starmer bows out

Britain gets a new prime minister on Monday after Andy Burnham wins the Labour leadership contest unopposed.

Senator Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly at the weekend, was a near-perfect symbol of the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party.

Western Europe's most prominent far-right leaders are both in trouble over financial irregularities – which is no coincidence.

As a wildly unpredictable state election nears in Victoria, the saga of Moira Deeming and the Liberal Party appears to be entering its final phase.

A wide range of right-of-centre figures, including many Australians, meet for a gabfest in London. What do they think they're doing?

In ten years after voting to leave the European Union, Britain not coincidentally has disposed of six prime ministers.

Andy Burnham wins big in a by-election in the north of England, seemingly setting him up to be Britain's next prime minister.

Final figures from last month's Farrer by-election show considerable resistance among Liberal voters to the party's preferencing strategy.

Some in the Liberal Party would like to play nice with One Nation and share things amicably. That's not going to work.