The political odd couple taking the podcast world by storm

The political odd couple taking the podcast world by storm

Former British politician Rory Stewart is one half of a hugely successful show that promotes intelligent policy discussion.

  • byNick Galvin

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Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?
Opinion
UK

Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?

Labour has responded judiciously to the recent ‘far-right thuggery’. But can it fix the UK’s immigration issues without giving Nigel Farage political oxygen?

  • byTim Soutphommasane
Tony Abbott recruited to help stop Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway

Tony Abbott recruited to help stop Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway

The former prime minister has been approached by some very vocal locals furious about a new bike ramp in Milsons Point.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
Private schools are meant to help you get ahead. Not in Starmer’s cabinet

Private schools are meant to help you get ahead. Not in Starmer’s cabinet

Two-thirds of Rishi Sunak’s cabinet were privately educated,but only one MP in Labour’s new cabinet paid to go to school. It’s a rapid turnaround.

  • byRob Harris
How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

Political gurus worldwide often look to the US to live out a West Wing-style fantasy,but UK watchers say it is Australia that really sets the tone in Westminster.

  • byRob Harris
Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer,he’s got to fix a broken Britain
Analysis
Analysis

Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer,he’s got to fix a broken Britain

Britain’s new prime minister faces perhaps the most monumental challenges of any incoming UK leader since Clement Attlee’s Labour Party won in a landslide in 1945.

  • byRob Harris
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Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

From bungee jumping to Count Binface,in the weeks before Labour’s landslide win,the British election generated no shortage of remarkable scenes.

  • byRob Harris
‘This is for Gaza’:What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese

‘This is for Gaza’:What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese

UK Labour lost five seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates during the course of the night,all in areas with significant Muslim populations.

  • byRob Harris
UK election 2024 as it happened:Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer;Labour to form majority government

UK election 2024 as it happened:Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer;Labour to form majority government

The polls have closed in the UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to take power,sweeping away Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 years.

  • byRob Harris,Jessica McSweeney,Nick Ralston andAngus Thomson
So long UK Conservatives,and thanks for all the memes
Analysis
UK election

So long UK Conservatives,and thanks for all the memes

The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature,but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.

  • byRob Harris
‘A new chapter’:Labour forecast for record-breaking win as polls open in UK election

‘A new chapter’:Labour forecast for record-breaking win as polls open in UK election

Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper has endorsed the opposition Labour Party rather than Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.

  • byRob Harris