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A Taxonomy of Boris Johnsons Body Language
Credits: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street The Prime Minister need not say much sometimes. It’s often written all over his face. Or the way he stands. Or how he’s brushed his hair. It’s all part of a game,…
What Labour Needs to Gain From its Conference
New Politic Asked in the 1980s whether Labour would ever win again, former Conservative minister Michael Heseltine replied, “Labour will win when it wants to.” Years later, Tony Blair said he found the remark “very profound” because “the Labour Party…
Labour Needs to Fix Its Relations With Muslim Voters
Labour leader Keir Starmer celebrated victory in the recent Batley and Spen by-election by declaring his party “is back”. He hailed Kim Leadbeater’s win as the beginning of Labour’s fight to win the next general election. But the narrowness of…
Labour Must Look to its Opportunities and Beyond its Failures
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar The Labour Party can win elections. After four defeats and eleven years out of power, that feels like a controversial statement. But just as the Conservatives have dominated British politics for the past decade, Labour dominated…
Revealed The Conservative Partys Links to the Pro-Trump, American Far Right
White House Archives / Shealah Craiughead Conservative MPs are linked to a network of far-right American politicians, New Politic can reveal. Three Conservative MPs — Iain Duncan Smith, Nusrat Ghani and Tim Loughton — attended and addressed a conference hosted…
Dont Let the Rise of Europe Steal World History
Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I…
Al-Qaida and ISIS Are Struggling to Recruit
A ruined base of the Islamic State, in Shingal (Sinjar) / Levi Clancy Al-Qaida was planning two sets of terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. On Sept. 11, 2021, as Americans commemorate and mourn the lives lost that…
Colourised Photos From the Civil Rights Movement
2020 has been a historical year for race relations. The murder of George Floyd has resurfaced the deep structural inequalities faced by African Americans in the United States. From racism, violence, political disenfranchisement and poverty, the African American experience has been…
Boris Johnson is a Broken Man
Credits: Jessica Taylor / Parliament UK Asked once by a friend why he wanted to swap journalism for politics, Boris Johnson — then a well-known journalist at The Spectator — responded: “They don’t put up statues to journalists.” In a…
The Future of Politics Lies in Technology
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar / Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC/MOD / Wikipedia For law, politics or philosophy students who have encountered political theory, Susskind’s work particularly hits a chord. He asks, and more importantly, answers the questions that we all have…