Democracy keeps populism in check

Starmer’s relaunch Controversy of the week “Delivery, ...

“Politicians always seem to assume that the British public isn’t willing to pay more tax in return for better public services,” says Vince Cable. “I’m not entirely sure that’s true.” The former Lib De

“Suicidal or courageous?” Prime Minister François Bayrou’s shock ...

Over the past four decades, as inequality has grown exponentially for all Americans, the number of poor and low-income white people—66 million in 2018—has swelled higher than any other demographic. Th

Paris Confidence vote: France seemed to be heading ...

A spectre is haunting Keir Starmer’s Labour. Just as the prime minister and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, thought they had banished the ghost of Corbynism, a new wave of “left populism” has st