Paul Mason
Five last-minute thoughts about the Greek election
Greece’s deep-seated problems are decades old and normal. What’s abnormal is the chance to blow it all away.
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FactCheck: would PR have prevented more austerity?
Voices from the left and right are calling for a move to Proportional Representation. What difference would it really make?
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FactCheck Q&A: can the unions hold Labour to ransom?
Could Labour and their union backers be on collision course as the party chooses a new leader? Could Len McCluskey bankrupt Labour?
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Has Sepp Blatter already won the race for Fifa president?
Luis Figo enters the race to challenge Sepp Blatter in the Fifa presidential election – but with the number of candidates growing are the odds increasing in Sepp Blatter’s favour?
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish Labour leadership contest and the general election
Voting in the race to be leader of the Scottish Labour Party closes tomorrow and some claim echoes of the 2010 battle of the Miliband brothers.
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Kylie Morris
Free at last? Obama finally acts on US immigrants
Obama could have made his big move on immigration years ago, but now faces a tough fight with congress over who should be allowed to stay.
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Gary Gibbon
Can Jim Murphy save Scottish Labour?
Jim Murphy is expected to declare his candidacy for the leadership of Scottish Labour in the next 48 hours, but some commentators say he has too much Blairite baggage to carry off the job.
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Pakistan election crisis – is history repeating itself?
Pakistan seems to lurch from one political crisis to another and perhaps inevitably, it has got another full-blown emergency on its hands.
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Can Britain do business with Narendra Modi?
As India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi is the leader of the world’s biggest democracy. Britain hit the diplomatic bull’s-eye with the sometimes controversial figure early on: but what’s next?
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Paul Mason
What price the EU, including fascists?
Imagine you went to sleep in 1994 and woke up 20 years later as the Euro election results were coming in. What you might make of them can tell us a lot about Europe today.
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Bash for questions: the worst parliamentary punch-ups
Turkey’s parliament sees violent scenes as members of the ruling and opposition party clash – not for the first time. We look at other debates where the battle of ideas has turned physical.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour one member, one vote sealed at NEC today
Last night saw a final change to Labour’s one member, one vote plans, with the threshold for MPs’ nominations required before a candidate can go forward raised from 12.5 per cent.
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Thailand's wandering prime minister
Temporarily homeless and dismissed by opponents as a “dim-witted puppet”, Yingluck Shinawatra seems determined to hold on to power in Thailand.
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Cameron vows to ‘change the rules’ on EU benefits
David Cameron’s plans to make it harder to stop new arrivals from the EU getting out-of-work benefits for three months in a bid crack down on immigration have been criticised by a top EU official.
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US government shuts its doors – so what next?
Closed for business: 800,000 federal workers are sent home without pay as Republicans and Democrats fail to agree a budget. So what happens next? Crisis – or compromise?
