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John Redwood: Why populists reject the establishment – and no longer believe what it tells them

Here in Britain, the two main parties are being punished by voters for tearing up their Brexit commitments.

By Sir John Redwood MP | 17 May 2019 | 120 comments

Grayling, Patten, the Far Right, the IRA, Brexit, the Speaker – and the difference between a threat and a warning

If two men are in a car, and the passenger says to the driver: “Look out! You’re going to crash,” he is shouting out the second, not the first.

By Paul Goodman | 13 January 2019 | 183 comments

Merkel will rescue the Prime Minister. Where have we heard that before?

The German Chancellor was stronger then than she is now. And there’s no guarantee that any compromise she might push would work.

By Paul Goodman | 19 October 2018 | 185 comments

Jobs, wages – and stubbornly buoyant Conservative poll ratings

Wages are growing at their fastest rate for ten years, and employment is at a near-record high. But qualifications are necessary…

By Paul Goodman | 17 October 2018 | 101 comments

Garvan Walshe: The world sorely needs militant democrats

McCain knew that politics should be a fierce contest, restrained by respect for civilians and one’s enemies.

By Garvan Walshe | 30 August 2018 | 39 comments

Henry Newman: What will the EU look like after we have left it?

Our exit in will coincide with a new cycle of European elections which will redraw political power in the European Parliament and other EU institutions.

By Henry Newman | 21 August 2018 | 170 comments

Might some Labour MPs oppose a customs union? If so, are the Tory whips making contact with them?

Those representing working class seats in the Midlands and North will be nervous of any suggestion that they’re betraying the referendum result.

By Paul Goodman | 7 May 2018 | 106 comments

There is danger now in Germany of a weak, centrist government – with extremists flourishing on both sides

Merkel has appalled her own followers by making sweeping concessions to the Social Democrats.

By Andrew Gimson | 9 February 2018 | 134 comments

A new grand coalition in Germany may be a boon for AfD

If both of the main parties remain locked together in an unpopular pact, it creates more space in which new challengers can grow.

By Henry Hill | 13 January 2018 | 122 comments

Merkel is doomed – but will not be replaced soon enough to help Brexit

The German consensus which placed no significant party to the right of the CDU, thus bolstering it as a governing force, is breaking down.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 November 2017 | 181 comments

Henry Newman: Macron seems determined to prove that Brexiteer fears about a federal Europe were right all along.

But could Germany, in the wake of its election result, now become the prime bulwark against Macron’s and Juncker’s ambitions?

By Henry Newman | 27 September 2017 | 58 comments

WATCH: Merkel – “We would like to win the voters of the AfD back”

The German Chancellor on the exit polls that show her set for a fourth term – but with Alternative für Deutschland winning 13 per cent of the vote.

24 September 2017 | 31 comments

Iain Dale: As May speaks in Florence, I’m here in Berlin – watching Merkel preparing her own return to office

Plus: Osborne’s regrets, vintage Heseltine – and, after Germany, to Brighton, for what is claimed to be the biggest conference Labour has ever held.

By Iain Dale | 22 September 2017 | 114 comments

Iain Duncan Smith: Britain last June. America last month. Now Italy. Next, Germany? France? Holland? Revolt against the elites is sweeping the West.

Are we seeing a convulsion as great as 1968 – or even 1848?

By Iain Duncan Smith | 6 December 2016

George Maggs: Brexit. Trump. Not a revolt against the elites, but an upsurge of patriotism

A fundamental clash between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism is taking place – and it cuts across Left and Right.

By George Maggs | 3 December 2016 | 69 comments

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