Britain is not the only democracy where the centre is crumbling. On September 8th France’s centrist government fell over ...

(CNN) — With the UK’s general election just days away, British voters have seen their TV screens, mailboxes and newsfeeds fill with color. Just like commercial brands, political parties know that ...

FIFTY YEARS ago the world economy reeled from a quadrupling of oil prices and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. The United Kingdom’s response to the turmoil of the ...

For the past three years, 38-year-old Oxford academic Oliver Lewis has been teaching an oversubscribed course at Sciences Po – the Paris university that produced six of France’s last eight presidents ...

The absolute apotheosis of this is talking up wealth taxes. It ticks the populist boxes — only taxes people with £10mn of assets, raises a gargantuan amount (£20bn or more). So how come nobody’s ever ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he would overhaul Britain's scandal-hit parliament, giving people a vote on sweeping political reforms if his Labour Party wins the May ...