Words are not deeds.
The confusions of anti-politics: Brexit
Tuesday, 24 May 2016 International relations 7 comments
Conservatives will be grateful to Cameron to allow them to forget the whole ghastly business.
The confusions of anti-politics: US edition
Monday, 1 February 2016 International relations 6 comments
The pitch. Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say China in a trade deal? I beat China all the time. All the time. Republican and US Presidential front-runner Donald Trump […]
The ties that bind
Tuesday, 22 April 2014 State of the parties 14 comments
This is moving towards something new: cutting any overt links to social groups and special interests and formalising the detachment of the political system from voters that is already there.
Unity – an update
Monday, 14 October 2013 Political figures, State of the parties 15 comments
Into a vacuum could step somebody that has never made a point of standing for anything (or behind anyone) in particular. From that angle, Labor might have just found its best candidate.
Relief
Monday, 9 September 2013 State of the parties 22 comments
The end of that tension in Labor is because Rudd’s failure has meant there is now no one in Labor who can turn an attack on the party’s existing power structures into an electoral asset.
AdWatch: Labor’s negative ads
Sunday, 25 August 2013 Tactics 4 comments
The debate showed how much Rudd, rather than maintain the aura of incumbency he so well established when he returned, has needed to take up the negativity himself. Shouldn’t the ads be doing that?
Realignment
Tuesday, 30 July 2013 State of the parties 14 comments
The political agenda we see now are the leftovers from a time when the major parties represented clear social bases in the electorate which they no longer do.
The Rudd effect
Monday, 1 July 2013 Media analysis, Political figures, Tactics 53 comments
The lack of a convincing reason on the source of Rudd’s popularity, is not because political commentators are thick, but because the answer is uncomfortable.
The problem of the “political cycle”
Sunday, 8 April 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 31 comments
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.