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Presidential campaign donations are subject to diminishing marginal returns Donations are rightly regarded as an important factor in a presidential election. They’re how campaigns hire staff, run get-out-the-vote operations, and, crucially, spend billions of dollars in ad buys. That’s...
One of the best written and most thought-provoking political books in recent decades was Jonathan Freedland’s Bring Home the Revolution. Essentially a paean of praise to...
When the US goes to the polls on 8 November, it won’t just be a test for those politicians seeking re-election, but also of President Joe Biden’s popularity. The midterms take...
Truss can afford to be unpopular – for now. 'Consensus' was a swear word for Margaret Thatcher. She once declared: “To me consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all...
The cost of living crisis is a key issue for the Conservative leadership candidates hoping to become the next prime minister of the UK. But the taxation strategies suggested by...
The chaos in Sri Lanka has deepened after the country’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives. The president and his family left Colombo on a military jet just...
On February 24, the first day of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops occupied Snake Island, a small but strategically important outpost in the Black Sea about 70 nautical...
Most people refuse to compromise on territory, but willingness to make peace depends on their war experiences. The war in Ukraine shows no signs of ending soon. Ukraine is...
Western sanctions are partly to blame. In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the west imposed sanctions, the rouble collapsed. The number of roubles to...
As coronavirus restrictions ease, will the economic life of consumers snap back to normal? Electoral Calculus and pollster Find Out Now conducted an exclusive poll for The...