Gordon Brown coming back in the UK
Gordon Brown had a pretty awful year, with losses of safe seats in by-elections and massive poll leads for David Cameron's Conservatives. But since...
NSW state Newspoll: ALP vote collapses
The latest Newspoll on NSW state politics has the Labor Party collapsing to levels even lower than seen in the last century. With the...
First Dog on the Moon takes on Labor-Green tensions
I'm hoping to write some analysis of the consequences of Rudd's climate change announcement tomorrow, but I thought you'd enjoy today's First Dog on...
How do we elect our leaders? Part two
Yesterday I laid out how leaders are elected in Canada and the UK, where party members play a central role in deciding leaders, as...
How do we elect our leaders? Part one
After the events of the last few weeks further demonstrated the inability of Stephane Dion to remain as leader of the Liberal Party of...
The Daily Show does Canada
It's been a while since I've posted Daily Show clips, so I thought I'd put up Monday night's Daily Show coverage of the Canadian...
US Congress update
Over the last few days most of the remaining undecided seats have been decided. In CA-04 the Republican has held on, while the Democrat...
Quebec election: Liberals regain majority
I don't know enough about Canadian politics to do in-depth coverage of provincial elections, but I thought I'd do a wrap-up of yesterday's provincial...
Sky News launches A-SPAN
Sky News, Foxtel and Austar announced today that they will be launching a new network, A-SPAN, modelled on the US C-SPAN, which broadcasts live,...
Italy’s overseas seats
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