The Visible Hand of the Government, and Why that Worked in 2008.

JM Valat De Córdova
Feb 12, 2024
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Updated: Mar 22, 2024

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The 2026 London local elections was a mixed bag for the major parties. I have five boroughs in London, the results of which give us some ideas on where the major parties stand, that being the Labour party, the Conservative party, and the Liberal Democrats, and what their future may be like in a world increasingly dominated by the Greens and Reform. Red voting Redbridge Here, the Labour party maintained control of the council with 43 out of 63 seats. This was down 15 from the

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London 2026: Reform make tiny splash in London, underperforming polling

Earlier this month, I wrote about the Farage plan to secede several outer London boroughs, such as Bromley, Havering, Barking & Dagenham, or Bexley, away from the capital should they win in those councils. Opinion polling had Reform UK on track to be the largest party in several councils, if not in control, but that polling was wrong. Reform massively underperformed in London compared to the rest of the country. In the end, they only managed to gain 80 or so seats across the

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London 2026: The Green wave threatens senior Labour MPs

There is a clear winner in London, the Greens. In September last year, the party elected former deputy leader Zack Polanski to be their sole leader, breaking from a tradition of co-leaders dating back to 2017. He had an impressive social media campaign and, once in office, skyrocketed party membership from nearly 70,000 to over 230,000 in less than a year, overtaking the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, and putting them close to the Labour party who recorded fewer than 25

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Why the 2026 London results are a lens into the future of British politics

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Snap Elections in Johor State, Implications for Malaysia at-large

By: Johor chief minister's office (KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA) - History, by its very nature, is a slow-burning fuse. But on this day, the first of June 2026, in the southernmost state of the country of Malaysia - the match has been struck, the fuse is lit, and the political landscape roars into life. The wait is over; the tension was too high - the Johor Chief Minister has obtained consent to throw down the gauntlet to pave the way for a snap election by July 31. While the Johor

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Denmark punishes the Social Democrats, Lessons from the Elections

By Christian Ursilva - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ursilva/55042888769/, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=182190394. (BERLIN, GERMANY) - The dust has settled over Denmark after the quite chaotic and closely watched Danish Folketing election, and a new political landscape has formed for the Scandinavian country. The biggest headlines are, of course, the absolute collapse of the Socialdemokratiet to their lowest support in over a century, despite

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