The Globalist

Lower-income voters, at least in the U.S. and UK cases, care more about cultural messaging than their share of the economy.

What are the hard lessons for Europe and wider geopolitics from Boris Johnson’s victory in the 2019 British general election?

Final polls cast some doubt over a Conservative majority.

If Johnson does not win a majority, it would be a major defeat for him and some kind of technical government would have to be formed — mainly to organize a new referendum.

In three weeks British voters decide on the fate the biggest left-wing political offer made in a western democracy since 1981.

The list of serious transgressions presented below describes what is happening in the United Kingdom — not in Belarus, Turkey, Egypt or the Philippines.

Johnson has claimed that he can unite the country under his leadership. That seems a practical impossibility.

Will Boris Johnson really be a Robespierre, as the ardent Brexiteers hope — or convert himself into rational Monsieur Talleyrand?

Women in Europe are still rarely the leaders of well-known parties. Now, the two most prominent of them could possibly leave the political top level in the same week.

Many on the continent may now see an orderly “velvet” Brexit as the least bad among the realistic outcomes.