As weary Britons watch the months-long saga surrounding the prime ministership of Keir Starmer apparently nearing its end, it might help to know that another apparently stable democracy has been through all this before. It was in June of 2010 when stunned Australians woke up to the news that their popular prime minister, Kevin Rudd, had been politically executed in a late night coup by his deputy Julia Gillard, making her Australia’s first female leader. The dramatic events of that night kicked off more than a decade of destablisation in the country’s capital, Canberra, some of the impact of which […]

Only a select handful of countries have experienced more recent churn at the top of government than the United Kingdom, which is about to get its seventh prime minister in a…

UK Labour is poised to replace prime ministers, the seventh leadership change in a decade.

Britain’s democratic institutions can endure instability, but this does not translate into an ability to deliver sustained national renewal.

June 23, 2016 — the date of the Brexit referendum — remains a seismic moment in the UK’s political history. But the roots of the country’s long period of political instability,…

As weary Britons watch the months-long saga surrounding the prime ministership of Keir Starmer apparently nearing its end, it might help to know that another apparently stable…