US politics Articles

The GOP primary next month may not feature the classic campaign conflict of momentum versus organisation – indeed, it could well descend into a case of inertia versus disorganisation. Organisation and momentum are not mutually exclusive, of course; in tandem, they are...

One of the UK’s most successful exports to the US has been Simon Cowell. The X-factor, Pop Idol and America’s got Talent has replicated its success from the UK into America both in terms of dominating the entertainment culture and in getting segments of the population...

The path to victory in 2012 looks tough for the Democratic incumbent, but Barack Obama has won as the underdog before and could well do so again, writes Anthony Painter Political scientists are, of course, no such thing. There are very rarely replicable experiments in...

Today I attended the fringe event jointly organised by Progress and the Institute for Government on whether we should have primaries to select Labour parliamentary candidates.   In the pro camp on the panel was Tottenham MP David Lammy, who said primaries were a good...