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The EU has already made room for figures from Europe’s populist Right.
Now Viktor Orbán could take that battle to the UN, writes @thephilippics 👇
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In his own understated way, Andy Burnham has also profited from turmoil: first from the oddly dysfunctional Starmer years and, more broadly, nearly two decades of economic malaise.
So while Milan and Tirana are beset by disorder, and French town halls are ablaze, British politics suddenly feels like a haven of calm — however fleeting that may ultimately prove.
Normal without being boring, charming without feeling pompous, Burnham’s personal qualities are enhanced by the chaos preceding him. He is, for many, a welcome antidote to the broiling disorder of Southport, Southampton and Gosport in recent years.
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When centre-left politicians abandoned the language of class, a void opened up in the working-class heartlands of the West. Into that void stepped a venomous storyteller with a century of experience in filling such voids: the resurgent far-Right, including its rebranded fascists.
It offers left-behind workers a story of dignity, then redirects their fury away from the owner who shipped their factory abroad, or the minister who sold their council house to some fund, and towards the migrant next door. It does not end the class war. It merely divides one side – the workers – to rule over them. It camouflages the war.
A fatalism has set in: the class war waged from above, we are told, must inevitably end in a neofascist, racist, misogynist revival.
Brazil has just refuted this fatalism.
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Viktor Orbán has won five national elections, four with supermajorities.
His record puts many of the liberals elevated to international office to shame, writes @thephilippics 👇
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Brazil has shown us three things: first, that the class war waged against the many does not have to end in fascism. Fascism flourishes only when the Left vacates the battlefield of class.
Second, a progressive government can win by pointing upwards at those who extract rent, rather than downwards, at those who suffer.
And third, Big Business can be defeated, at least forced to lose some battles, by building public alternatives to its rent-extracting machines.
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Nationalism, it turns out, is a difficult thing to export.
The BC Conservatives won big without embracing Trump’s brand of politics, writes @yuanyi_z 👇
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A Canadian election has exposed the limits of MAGA’s global appeal.
The Right can win without importing Trump’s politics, writes @yuanyi_z 👇
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Hillary Clinton wants to stack the Supreme Court with more judges.
Why are Democrats undermining the rule of law? @KyleSammin 👇
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"That's the debt trap"
@eurobriefing tells @freddiesayers that France faces a massive debt rollover next year; as rising interest rates drive up servicing costs past vital budgets, governments must issue even more debt to cover past borrowing, triggering a dangerous debt trap.
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A growing number of Democrats are proposing an expansion of the Supreme Court.
They are choosing partisanship over the rule of law, argues @KyleSammin 👇
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The Tories are once again Britain’s highest-polling Right-wing party.
Reform’s voters are beginning to abandon Nigel Farage, writes @DrDavidJeffery 👇
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The Tories have overtaken Reform in polling for the first time since January 2025.
Is Nigel Farage’s electoral coalition falling apart? @DrDavidJeffery 👇
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For years, Latin America has elected waves of Washington-backed candidates.
But President Lula’s shock re-election victory has halted the continent’s Rightward turn, argues @NickBurns 👇
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After losing in the first round, Brazil’s President Lula has won a shocking runoff election victory.
His triumph halts a string of successes for Trump-aligned candidates across Latin America, writes @NickBurns 👇
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I for one am optimistic about Britain's future. Our country has the capability not just to survive in our radically changing world, but to thrive in it. It has endured seven shocks in 18 years — two of which were self-inflicted — and yet it is still standing. Britain’s economy is clearly resilient. The question now facing John Healey is how to grow it.
The answer is AI. Love it or hate it, it doesn’t matter: because AI is “the thing” and trillions of dollars are being poured into it for good reason. It’s a transformative technology that is here to stay, whether or not the bubble surrounding it bursts, just as the railways and the internet outlived the bubbles that built them.
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Britain voted to take back control of its borders.
Restoring EU freedom of movement would undo that very promise, writes @peterfranklin_ 👇
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Many Israelis regard the upcoming election as critical, perhaps the most consequential in the country's history. Arab voters, whose theoretical electoral weight exceeds 20 seats in the 120-member Knesset, largely share the goal of the Jewish opposition's so-called “change bloc”: to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bring down the most Right-wing government in Israel's history.
With the polls suggesting a closely fought election, Arab voters could emerge as the Jewish State’s ultimate kingmakers — with consequences that could transform not just the Knesset, but Israeli society as a whole.
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