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Days after the election, it remains unclear who the the next prime minister will be.
Past prime ministers could afford to talk big on climate change – but now the impact of the environmental crisis is manifestly real, Sunak can’t afford to appease those who oppose green policies.
It’s in Britain’s interests to help the African continent reach its potential.
Why the new UK prime minister could struggle to translate her low-tax strategy to the general public.
The new leader of the Conservative party inherits a country in crisis.
The likely next prime minister is focusing on tax cuts to solve inflation.
As he exits Number 10, an expert on political rhetoric looks back on the quotes that best illustrate Johnson’s premiership.
Previous government bailouts have set a precedent for intervention in the cost of living crisis
Tax cuts could ease the burden on households and small businesses that are struggling, alongside tax increases for large firms.
Lumumba’s death triggered students and created a generation of activists that pushed for total liberation from exploitation and oppression.
First uttered by Oliver Cromwell, the words David Davis used to ask Boris Johnson to step down have a storied past.
For the government a Sunday announcement has several advantages, many of them to do with the news agenda.
This is Boris Johnson’s first major cabinet reshuffle since the Conservatives’ general election victory.
Scott Morrison’s salvo against the NSW environment minister, one of his party’s progressives on climate change, was gratuitous and inept.
Mauritius’ “dynastic politics” does not augur well for the often celebrated image of Mauritius as Africa’s shining democratic model.
Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.
We now have ‘Believe in Britain’ and ‘Make America Great Again’. This language posits itself as inclusive, but in reality creates the space for Trumpian excesses.
Felix Tshisekedi must come out from under former premier Joseph Kabila’s thumb.
Along with a belief in miracles, other key aspects of Pentecostal doctrine – from divine providence to pietism – will likely shape the actions of our re-elected Prime Minister.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hull
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Surrey
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Lecturer in History and Politics, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Lecturer in African History, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Early Modern History, Nottingham Trent University
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Economist and Lecturer in Management, Keele University
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Teaching Fellow, History Department, Case Western Reserve University
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Democracy scholar and Associate Professor in Media and Political Systems, University of Mauritius
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Reader at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde
