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The Tories are cheering the voyage to a Brexit promised land that doesn’t exist | Rafael Behr
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Labour looks aimless because it’s already searching for Starmer’s replacement | Rafael Behr
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Brexit made an unlikely hero of Angela Merkel for Britain’s remainers | Rafael Behr
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Tory MPs call it reform, but the elections bill looks more like a heist

The Tories are cheering the voyage to a Brexit promised land that doesn’t exist | Rafael Behr

  • Posted inBoris JohnsonBrexitConservative conferenceConservative conference 2021ConservativesPoliticsUK news
  • Posted byRafael Behr
  • 10/06/2021

Boris Johnson’s foreign policy is a combination of pompous internationalism and wilful parochialismOne of the first comedy routines I can remember seeing was Les Dawson, on some Saturday night light entertainment show, playing the piano badly, which he…

Labour looks aimless because it’s already searching for Starmer’s replacement | Rafael Behr

  • Posted inKeir StarmerLabourLabour conferenceLabour conference 2021PoliticsUK news
  • Posted byRafael Behr
  • 09/29/2021

The opposition leader might think he is treading the road to government, but he is surrounded by people mapping routes for his successorA national fuel crisis coinciding with Labour’s annual conference was good and bad news for Keir Starmer. The bad ne…

Brexit made an unlikely hero of Angela Merkel for Britain’s remainers | Rafael Behr

  • Posted inAngela MerkelBrexitEuropeeuropean unionGerman federal election 2021GermanyPoliticsWorld news
  • Posted byRafael Behr
  • 09/22/2021

The German chancellor’s record is mixed, but her exit brings home how adrift Europhiles in the UK now areAngela Merkel is used to being unimpressed by British prime ministers. She was appalled by David Cameron’s casual surrender of influence in Europe,…

Tory MPs call it reform, but the elections bill looks more like a heist

  • Posted inBoris JohnsonConservativesElectoral reformIdentity cardsMichael GovePoliticsUK news
  • Posted byRafael Behr
  • 09/08/2021

Alongside mandating voter ID, the government plans to keep the Electoral Commission – which oversees elections – in checkWhen judging a law that rewrites the rules of democracy, the test is not whether it does what the current government promises, but …

Thirty years after the Moscow coup, democracy is in a crisis of self-esteem | Rafael Behr

  • Posted inafghanistanEuropeMikhail GorbachevrussiaSouth and Central AsiaWorld news
  • Posted byRafael Behr
  • 08/18/2021

Much has been squandered since 1991, but the biggest threat to democracy today is the global contagion of cynicismOn 19 August 1991, citizens of the Soviet Union woke up to the news that Mikhail Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Communist party, …

Johnson’s disregard for rules helped him get elected – but it’s starting to wear thin | Rafael Behr

  • Posted inBoris JohnsonConservativesCoronavirusPoliticsUK newsWorld news
  • Posted byRafael Behr
  • 08/04/2021

From travel to vaccine passports, Covid policy is a mess because the prime minister struggles with the concept of protocolAre we nearly there yet? It is the backseat question that haunts long journeys, except in Britain’s pandemic road trip the impatie…

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