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IN TODAY'S BRITAIN, A RARE PUBLIC FIGURE Can bring together Brexiteers and Remainers, Conservatives and Labour. Yet the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg did just that on a visit to [...]

When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet this summer it reinforced the widely held impression that, compared to previous generations, we live in an age of political pygmies. What has happened [...]

Pele gave the World Cup some of its greatest moments, but he also burdened it with one of its greatest cliches: in 1977 he announced that an African nation would [...]

To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace Jeffrey Sachs Bodley Head, 272pp, [pounds sterling]14.99 JFK's Last Hundred Days: an Intimate Portrait of a Great President Thurston Clarke Allen Lane, [...]

The article discusses the relationship between politics and the Olympic Games through an examination of the London, England Olympics in 1908, 1948 and 2012. An overview of the relationship between the performance of British teams and the British public's opinion of their politicians is provided. The relationship between the political controversy surrounding the Olympic Games and international relations, including the U.S.'s outrage over Irish athletes playing under the British flag in the 1908 Olympics, is discussed.

The article discusses how minors and people care more about environment while politicians and voters had failed to prevent climate change. Topics discussed include ways in which climate change has become a contest of worldviews split along generational lines; the generational divide on climate change; ways in which democratic to a post-democratic system would be massively disruptive for the climate emergency needs; and need of democratic reforms capable of moving past the generational impasse in electoral politics.

Ever since the historian Richard Hofstadter published 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics,' in 1964, democracies have been stalked by a nagging anxiety about the capacity of irrational suspicions and [...]

Left-wing political parties exist to use the power of the state to rectify unjust distributions of power in society. What has gone wrong with this project? First, the political parties [...]

The author examines how the attitudes of older people influence immigration policies in democracies. He discusses the need for more young people to be involved in politics before noting the contradiction in older people's bias against immigrants despite immigrants making up a large population of elderly care workers.

The US presidential campaigns such as television interviews, speeches and campaign stops, are easy to follow because they are widely covered by the media and are constantly updated. Voting patterns are observed to be predictable, however, American polls are volatile. An evaluation of the candidates' presidential campaigns is presented.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown needs to have an ideology in politics in order to avoid perceptions of over-reliance on the advice of a small group of people. Brown's advisers and their background are provided.

This is the first volume in the publisher's new Ideas in Profile series of paperbacks and animated ebooks, in which assorted experts offer introductions to big topics. In his primer, […]

The article discusses the impact that the 2016 Brexit referendum has on British liberalism and the British political parties the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) the Labour Party. An overview of the members of the British Conservative (Tory) Party attitudes towards Brexit, including the Scottish Tory political leader Ruth Davidson's support for Great Britain to remain in the European Union (EU), is provided.

The article discusses some of the major political events in 2016. Topics covered include Great Britain's exit (Brexit) from the European Union (EU), the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, the problems of the Labour Party in Great Britain, the political disorder in Europe and the surge of populism.

The article offers the authors' views on the Brexit referendum. They mentions that the vote towards the withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union (EU) would give Prime Minister David Cameron the responsibility leading to significant pressure for him and the government. An overview of the response of politicians Boris Johnson and Michael Gove on the issue is also presented.

The great sin in contemporary democracy is to give the impression that you are holding something back. We want politicians who are comfortable talking about their inner selves, their private [...]

The article discusses the transformation of the gambling industry in England from rudimentary betting shops in the 1980s. Topics included are the revision of gambling regulations by the Budd Commission in 2000 on pragmatic grounds, limitation of deployment of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, and criticism of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's treatment of gambling as leisure activity without considering how much it favors bookies.

An essay is presented on the condition of British democracy and the problem of political scandals. The author compares the recent period as of 2014 with the 1970s, discussing the impact of scandals on political attitudes and government legitimacy. Topics include the political implications of the digital revolution, the French Alfred Dreyfus affair and the U.S. Watergate scandal, and the intersection of economic conditions and political trends.