The Political Spectrum

For those unaware, you can now find us at polspec.net, including an archive of all our previous articles (even from before we were using Medium). We don’t want to force people to pay to discover our work, so Medium’s introduction of a paywall has made using this site more difficult for the last few…

The first of the big European elections of 2017 is here, and it’s promising to tell us…very little. The governing coalition of Mark Rutte’s Liberals and Lodewijk Asscher’s Labour are not going to be able to form government again, but at least one and…

A report has recently been published by the European Council on Foreign Relations, detailing the change in cohesion across the European Union in the past decade. As anyone following European politics will know, things are looking much more grim for the future of the EU today than they were…

Politico — a gossip rag dressed up as an important political news organisation — is generally more miss than hit, but an article of theirs caught my attention this week. It is, of course, related to Donald Trump, but focuses on…