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Ongoing collection to bring together a news feed that mirrors my former Twitter feed for election and politics news from all over the world
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OVP, SPO and NEOS seems like a German counterpart match made in heaven that will likely open the doors even further for the far right in Austria. Brittle, centrist coalitions like this (with a free market focussed party like NEOS) have seemingly turbocharged far right growth across the world.
Austrian centrist parties agree to form coalition without far right
https://www.ft.com/content/8a512398-f1a0-4b8d-af54-0599225d7845
https://www.ft.com/content/8a512398-f1a0-4b8d-af54-0599225d7845
Austrian centrist parties agree to form coalition without far right
Centre-right leader Christian Stocker likely to become chancellor
www.ft.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
OVP, SPO and NEOS seems like a German counterpart match made in heaven that will likely open the doors even further for the far right in Austria. Brittle, centrist coalitions like this (with a free market focussed party like NEOS) have seemingly turbocharged far right growth across the world.
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As Slovak PM Robert Fico steers Bratislava away from the West and into Moscow’s orbit, a bitter animus is estranging Czechia and Slovakia. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/czec...
February 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As Slovak PM Robert Fico steers Bratislava away from the West and into Moscow’s orbit, a bitter animus is estranging Czechia and Slovakia. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/czec...
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A YouGov MRP has found a median estimate of Coalition 73 seats, Labor 66, were an election to be held today.
If those numbers were replicated on polling day Dutton would be the firm favourite to govern.
My story for ABC News:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
If those numbers were replicated on polling day Dutton would be the firm favourite to govern.
My story for ABC News:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton in line to be next PM
The ABC can reveal the results of YouGov's latest MRP model, which finds the Peter Dutton-led Coalition would be likely to win about 73 seats if an election was held today.
www.abc.net.au
February 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A YouGov MRP has found a median estimate of Coalition 73 seats, Labor 66, were an election to be held today.
If those numbers were replicated on polling day Dutton would be the firm favourite to govern.
My story for ABC News:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
If those numbers were replicated on polling day Dutton would be the firm favourite to govern.
My story for ABC News:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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It is very hard for me to imagine a national political party succeeding in 2025 if it organizes itself to such an absurd degree around the guidance of consultants and consultant-minded people. www.offmessage.net/p/out-with-t...
February 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It is very hard for me to imagine a national political party succeeding in 2025 if it organizes itself to such an absurd degree around the guidance of consultants and consultant-minded people. www.offmessage.net/p/out-with-t...
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Wake up babe, a whole "Will Stancil is a fucking idiot" article just dropped
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Wake up babe, a whole "Will Stancil is a fucking idiot" article just dropped
The AfDs watershed moment in the upcoming election will have monumental repercussions across most of Europe in a post truth world. As Austria has shown, you can keep skirting around the far right for only so long before centre and right wing parties realise they’ll never have a majority without them
Fantastic piece by @francescaebel.bsky.social on the “frozen” people, thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in secret in Russian prisons and the activists in Ukraine and Russia fighting to get them out. Urgent story and brilliant storytelling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Ukrainians are vanishing into Russia. These people track them down.
Thousands of Ukrainians have disappeared into prisons in Russia, and a network of Russians and Ukrainians are working together to find them.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The AfDs watershed moment in the upcoming election will have monumental repercussions across most of Europe in a post truth world. As Austria has shown, you can keep skirting around the far right for only so long before centre and right wing parties realise they’ll never have a majority without them
When the gears come to a screeching halt in this AI “revolution”, the governments and companies that have sunk huge sums of money into a failure of a project will be left with egg on their face.
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday announced a €109 billion plan to boost artificial intelligence in France "in the coming years."
Macron pledges to catch up with Trump with €109B AI investment
“We have to be in the race,” the French president says.
www.politico.eu
February 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
When the gears come to a screeching halt in this AI “revolution”, the governments and companies that have sunk huge sums of money into a failure of a project will be left with egg on their face.
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Labour is facilitating the rise of 'Reform' by trying to out-Farage them and anyone in denial of this needs to wake up before it's too late. These are cruel policies worthy of the worst Tory, and it is being done by Starmer's Labour.
By failing to repeal clauses from the Illegal Migration Act which make it harder for victims to be recognised, along with current policies of increased detention and deportations etc, Labour are actively contributing to people being trapped in modern slavery. #r4today
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
February 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Labour is facilitating the rise of 'Reform' by trying to out-Farage them and anyone in denial of this needs to wake up before it's too late. These are cruel policies worthy of the worst Tory, and it is being done by Starmer's Labour.
Kier Starmer as the feckless equivalent of a UK Joe Biden has nowhere to go but the dark abyss in which Nigel and his cronies will rise from. Kier is politically bankrupt after not even a year after a landslide majority victory (though FPTP saved their graces in this one)
Reform UK has taken the lead in a British opinion poll for the first time, in a move that will alarm Labour and the Conservatives www.ft.com/content/2a22...
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Kier Starmer as the feckless equivalent of a UK Joe Biden has nowhere to go but the dark abyss in which Nigel and his cronies will rise from. Kier is politically bankrupt after not even a year after a landslide majority victory (though FPTP saved their graces in this one)
National Rally’s thought process in this is probably fairly simple. Already toppled one useless, unpopular PM and made the centre look weak and falling apart at the seams. Why bother doing it again when voters will likely reward you anyway at the ballot box in 2027 (thanks again Macron)
The president of the far-right National Rally, Jordan Bardella, strongly indicated today that his party would not vote to topple French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government as it faces series of no-confidence votes in the coming days.
Bardella hints French far right won’t topple PM in multiple no-confidence votes
The National Rally chief says Bayrou has put forward an “extremely bad budget,” but that “uncertainty needs to be avoided.”
www.politico.eu
February 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
National Rally’s thought process in this is probably fairly simple. Already toppled one useless, unpopular PM and made the centre look weak and falling apart at the seams. Why bother doing it again when voters will likely reward you anyway at the ballot box in 2027 (thanks again Macron)
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Like the typical bully, Trump turned tail on tariffs when confronted. But the domestic assault on rule of law continues. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-the-m...
What the Musk is Happening?
It’s a catastrophe, but what kind of catastrophe?
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Like the typical bully, Trump turned tail on tariffs when confronted. But the domestic assault on rule of law continues. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-the-m...
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🗳️ 🇸🇰 📉 January poll by AKO finds the social-national bloc of Smer + Hlas + SNS + Republika continuing on a downward trend from their mid-2024 peak.
Charts with individual parties below.
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Charts with individual parties below.
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January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🗳️ 🇸🇰 📉 January poll by AKO finds the social-national bloc of Smer + Hlas + SNS + Republika continuing on a downward trend from their mid-2024 peak.
Charts with individual parties below.
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Charts with individual parties below.
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As this story develops, Giorgia Meloni publishes a video stating that she is not "scared" & won't "refrain from changing Italy" due to pressure.
Usual populist playbook against magistrates, well tried and tested during the Berlusconi years 👇
www.ft.com/content/8e33... via @ft
Usual populist playbook against magistrates, well tried and tested during the Berlusconi years 👇
www.ft.com/content/8e33... via @ft
Giorgia Meloni under investigation by Rome prosecutors over release of Libyan warlord
Italian PM says prosecutors are probing her government’s decision to return Osama Elmasry Njeem to Libya
www.ft.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As this story develops, Giorgia Meloni publishes a video stating that she is not "scared" & won't "refrain from changing Italy" due to pressure.
Usual populist playbook against magistrates, well tried and tested during the Berlusconi years 👇
www.ft.com/content/8e33... via @ft
Usual populist playbook against magistrates, well tried and tested during the Berlusconi years 👇
www.ft.com/content/8e33... via @ft
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Trump's pick for Deputy Transportation Secretary wrote key memos justifying waterboarding and other barbaric interrogation tools for George W. Bush.
John McCain once called these documents "permission slips for torture.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
John McCain once called these documents "permission slips for torture.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump picks torture memo author for deputy transportation secretary
Sen. John McCain said Steven Bradbury, whose legal memos authorized waterboarding, wrote "permission slips for torture."
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump's pick for Deputy Transportation Secretary wrote key memos justifying waterboarding and other barbaric interrogation tools for George W. Bush.
John McCain once called these documents "permission slips for torture.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
John McCain once called these documents "permission slips for torture.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump might fondly compare himself to his hero McKinley but this admin will be a Warren Harding 2.0, rife with corruption, bought by billionaires and Biden to them. At least Harding didn’t spend most of his time pretending he cared about anyone that wasn’t well off though
The move signals Mark Zuckerberg’s ambition to work closely with the Trump administration as he seeks a role in influencing regulation in areas such as artificial intelligence. www.ft.com/content/9310...
January 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Trump might fondly compare himself to his hero McKinley but this admin will be a Warren Harding 2.0, rife with corruption, bought by billionaires and Biden to them. At least Harding didn’t spend most of his time pretending he cared about anyone that wasn’t well off though
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French budget talks were on the verge of collapse a day after Socialist party officials suspended their participation in protest over remarks about immigration by the prime minister reut.rs/4goonS1
France's budget talks close to collapse after Socialists pull out
French budget talks were on the verge of collapse on Wednesday, a day after Socialist party officials suspended their participation in protest over remarks about immigration by the prime minister.
reut.rs
January 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
French budget talks were on the verge of collapse a day after Socialist party officials suspended their participation in protest over remarks about immigration by the prime minister reut.rs/4goonS1
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Keeping Up With The Coupdashions:
As of today- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have officially left West African regional bloc ECOWAS- the three have formed their own "Alliance of Sahel States".
ECOWAS say citizens of all three countries will enjoy “right to visa free movement”.
As of today- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have officially left West African regional bloc ECOWAS- the three have formed their own "Alliance of Sahel States".
ECOWAS say citizens of all three countries will enjoy “right to visa free movement”.
January 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Keeping Up With The Coupdashions:
As of today- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have officially left West African regional bloc ECOWAS- the three have formed their own "Alliance of Sahel States".
ECOWAS say citizens of all three countries will enjoy “right to visa free movement”.
As of today- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have officially left West African regional bloc ECOWAS- the three have formed their own "Alliance of Sahel States".
ECOWAS say citizens of all three countries will enjoy “right to visa free movement”.
The international community after seeing Israel break a pledge on territorial expansion.
January 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The international community after seeing Israel break a pledge on territorial expansion.
Arnault just cannot imagine losing a few billion off of the wealth he will never spend in a thousand lifetimes.
Billionaire Bernard Arnault tore into the French government for proposing a tax hike that would hit France's most valuable companies.
Bernard Arnault slams French tax hikes, considers investing more in Trump’s US
Europe’s richest man praises new president’s business-friendly policies.
www.politico.eu
January 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Arnault just cannot imagine losing a few billion off of the wealth he will never spend in a thousand lifetimes.
Might very well be the dying days of any progressive reform in Chile before their upcoming election. Right wing candidates and parties seemingly set to take back full control.
With just months to spare before Chile’s next election, the Senate approved a pension reform that’s gone through an agonizing process throughout President Boric’s term. There’s at least a chance it could get approved before the November vote. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chile’s Senate Approves Pension Reform, Setting Up Crucial Votes
Chile’s Senate approved a long-sought reform to raise pensions for current and future retirees, advancing the legislation to a crucial phase in the lower house before it would become law.
www.bloomberg.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Might very well be the dying days of any progressive reform in Chile before their upcoming election. Right wing candidates and parties seemingly set to take back full control.
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Sri Lanka's 2024 election led to a dramatic changing of the guard, ushering in new political leaders and ousting dynastic elites. Can a new president correct the corruption and misgovernance of the past?
"Sri Lanka’s Peaceful Revolution" by Neil DeVotta
muse.jhu.edu/article...
"Sri Lanka’s Peaceful Revolution" by Neil DeVotta
muse.jhu.edu/article...
January 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sri Lanka's 2024 election led to a dramatic changing of the guard, ushering in new political leaders and ousting dynastic elites. Can a new president correct the corruption and misgovernance of the past?
"Sri Lanka’s Peaceful Revolution" by Neil DeVotta
muse.jhu.edu/article...
"Sri Lanka’s Peaceful Revolution" by Neil DeVotta
muse.jhu.edu/article...
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Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced his resignation during a press conference today, as President Aleksandar Vučić seeks to prop up his government amid massive protests rocking the country.
Serbia’s PM Vučević steps down over mega student-led protests
“In order not to further raise tensions in society, I made this decision,” says departing leader as pressure grows on President Aleksandar Vučić.
www.politico.eu
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced his resignation during a press conference today, as President Aleksandar Vučić seeks to prop up his government amid massive protests rocking the country.
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Canada federal election poll:
⏸️CPC: 39 %
⏫LPC: 32 % (+4)
⏬NDP: 14 % (-3)
⏸️BQ: 7 %
🔽GPC: 3 % (-2)
⏸️PPC: 3 %
EKOS, 21/01/25
⏸️CPC: 39 %
⏫LPC: 32 % (+4)
⏬NDP: 14 % (-3)
⏸️BQ: 7 %
🔽GPC: 3 % (-2)
⏸️PPC: 3 %
EKOS, 21/01/25
January 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Canada federal election poll:
⏸️CPC: 39 %
⏫LPC: 32 % (+4)
⏬NDP: 14 % (-3)
⏸️BQ: 7 %
🔽GPC: 3 % (-2)
⏸️PPC: 3 %
EKOS, 21/01/25
⏸️CPC: 39 %
⏫LPC: 32 % (+4)
⏬NDP: 14 % (-3)
⏸️BQ: 7 %
🔽GPC: 3 % (-2)
⏸️PPC: 3 %
EKOS, 21/01/25