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• Prime Minister and Cabinet: Cabinet opposition forced climbdown on ending BBC licence fee

• European Union: Brexit deadlock: Will the UK and EU agree a deal on Northern Ireland?

• Political parties: Keir Starmer defends Tony Blair as Labour continues shift to centre

• US Presidency: Biden’s disappointing first year in office

• Human rights: UK to inject ‘common sense’ into human rights legislation

• Electoral systems: Britain’s left needs more than informal pacts

• Parliament and executive: The new ‘government by diktat’ bypasses parliament altogether

• Prime Minister and Cabinet: Drift and division: inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street

• Legislative branch: Biden’s landmark spending bill faces next battle in Senate

• Political Parties: Republicans focus on education in bid to win back suburban America

• Executive and parliament: Boris Johnson must heed the furore around standards

• Executive and parliament: Government in U-turn on dumping sewage in English rivers

• President and Congress: Trump sues to prevent release of presidential records related to Capitol riot

• European Union: The UK approach to Northern Ireland is one of casual political vandalism

• Political parties: Labour seeks to bury Corbyn’s legacy with commitment to economic stability

• Political parties: Australia and France intensify war of words over cancelled submarine deal

• Pressure groups: Injunction granted against UK climate protesters

• Prime Minister and Cabinet: Boris Johnson recasts UK government with big cabinet shake-up

• Political parties: Boris Johnson plan to fund health and social care lifts UK tax burden to 70-year high

• Electoral systems: SNP announces power-sharing deal with Scottish Greens

• US presidency: Joe Biden’s potential Jimmy Carter moment

• Party funding: Property donors provide one-quarter of funds given to Tory party

• Prime minister and cabinet: Tory jitters greet Johnson’s second anniversary as prime minister

• Supreme Court: US Supreme Court tilts to the right — but how far will it go?

• Individual ministerial responsibility: Matt Hancock resigns as UK health secretary

• Prime Minister and Cabinet: After Matt Hancock’s exit, government must get a grip

• By-elections: Chesham and Amersham is the revenge of the Metropolitan Line elite

• Supreme Court: Breyer under mounting pressure to relinquish Supreme Court seat

• US Congress: ‘A slow, painful death’: Biden’s domestic agenda withers as he jets abroad

• British Constitution: The UK’s flexible constitution has had its day

• Prime minister and cabinet: Cummings exposes dangers of a lightweight leader and a dysfunctional system

• Democracy and participation: The Tories must reverse course on voter IDs

• The Republican Party: Liz Cheney launches blistering attack on fellow Republicans over Trump

• Political parties: Labour’s problem/the state takes control

• Devolution: UK local elections intensify devolution demands

• Executive and parliament: UK government must loosen its grip on parliamentary process

• Pressure groups: Greensill affair exposes opaque UK lobbying rules

• Devolution: Is the UK heading for break-up?

• Pressure/interest groups: US gun control activists hope this time will be different

• Civil/voting rights: The battleground that could determine the next US election

• The US Presidency: Joe Biden’s quietly revolutionary first 100 days

• Political parties: Rishi Sunak’s un-Tory Budget confounds assumptions once again

• Congress: Senate approves Joe Biden’s $1.9tn stimulus legislation

• Supreme Court: Shamima Begum cannot return to UK for citizenship battle, Supreme Court rules

• Political parties: Budget is a clarifying moment for UK Conservatives

• The Republican party: House votes to eject Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees

• Supreme Court: Retiring judges give Biden chance to make his benchmark

• Pressure groups: Washington’s revolving door: can Trump staffers find lobbying jobs?

• US presidency: Biden to unwind Trump agenda with raft of executive orders

• US presidency: Donald Trump’s weaponised lies blew up in his face

• British Constitution: Making UK governance fit for the future

• Devolution: Brexit’s second act may break the UK union

• Presidential powers: Donald Trump’s pardoning spree tests boundaries of authority

• Rights: Retired judge to lead review into UK human rights laws

• Supreme Court/Judicial branch: US Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed challenge to election

• Parliament and executive: Johnson suffers big Tory revolt as MPs approve England’s Covid curbs

• Political parties: Rishi Sunak’s emergency spending poses dilemma for Labour

• US presidential powers: Donald Trump pardons ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn

• Global State and Globalisation: Biden’s dilemma on global democracy

• Presidency: Trump’s big flaw: terrible hiring

• Regionalism/Power and Developments: Asia deal is wake-up call for free trade

• Power and developments: China surpasses western government African university scholarships

• Political parties: Johnson seeks Downing Street reset with ‘green industrial revolution’

• Prime minister and cabinet: Dominic Cummings’ exit must end the discord at Downing Street

• House of Lords: Johnson suffers heavy Lords defeat as senior Tories attack Brexit law

• English devolution: England’s metro mayors find new platform during Covid crisis

• Judicial branch: The US Supreme Court turns to the right

• Devolution: Will coronavirus break the UK?

• US Constitution: Will America tear itself apart?

• Presidential elections: Donald Trump must not be how American democracy dies

• Power and Developments: A new cold war: Trump, Xi and the escalating US-China confrontation

• Parliament and Executive: ‘Maoist’ Downing Street faces its own revolution

• Power and Developments: China’s geopolitics are pumped up by its economic success

• Judicial branch/Supreme Court: Ginsburg’s death sparks election battle over Supreme Court’

• British constitution: The UK’s constitution is not working

• Pressure groups: XR sees funding return as it tries to find its feet back on streets

• Liberal Democrat party: Ed Davey calls on Lib Dems to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ after becoming leader’

• Prime minister and cabinet: How Boris Johnson lost control

• British constitution: British politics will stay sleazy until the Lords is reformed

• Individual ministerial responsibility: U-turns by the dozen: Boris Johnson’s pandemic response

• Select committees: UK establishment criticised for dropping the ball on Kremlin threat

• Political parties: Republican divisions threaten new US stimulus proposal

• US Supreme Court: US Supreme Court refuses to bend to Trump’s will

• Political parties: New Deal Tories show the scale of Labour’s challenge

• Political parties: Republican resistance squads launch anti-Trump barrage

• US Supreme Court: Civil rights

• US Supreme Court: Landmark US Supreme Court ruling protects LGBT rights at work

• Civil rights: US Supreme Court thwarts Trump’s push to end protection for ‘Dreamers’

• US political parties: Democrats offer police reform bill after Floyd protests

• Prime minister and cabinet: Boris Johnson creates new teams to oversee coronavirus recovery

• Presidential powers: Trump battles to strip social media of legal protections

• Political ideas: Liberals have to get ready for a fightback

• Devolution: Covid-19 may yet tear Britain apart

• Political parties: Keir Starmer: ‘The government has been slow in nearly all of the major decisions’

• Devolution: Nations of UK stay in lockdown lockstep despite devolution

• Presidential elections: Justin Amash heads towards third party US presidential run

• Parliament: UK MPs agree historic ‘virtual parliament’

• US democracy: Americans clash over how to vote in the time of coronavirus

• US federalism: Trump claims ‘total’ authority as he considers easing lockdown

• Prime minister and cabinet: Dominic Raab steps into UK’s constitutional breach

• Rights: Contrasting police methods during lockdown raise liberty fears

• Political parties: Donald Trump signs $2tn coronavirus stimulus into law

• Federalism: Donald Trump’s chaotic coronavirus crisis

• Prime minister: The UK Prime Minister and the Coronavirus Crisis

• Electoral systems: Biden’s surge poses threat to Sanders’ US primary hopes

• Rights: Will the human rights convention sink a Brexit trade deal?

• Political parties: How far will US polarisation go?

• US Supreme Court: Behind the unjust agenda of America’s highest court

• Congressional elections: Gerrymandering: America’s other border crisis

• Supreme Court: UK attorney-general backs calls to curb judges’ powers

• Parliament/Prime Minister: Boris Johnson lines up cabinet reshuffle

• The Conservative party: Will Boris Johnson reverse Thatcherism?

• Referendums: Boris Johnson rejects SNP call for independence referendum

• British constitution: Conservatives plan to move House of Lords out of London

• Conservatism: The Conservative party should care about inequality

• Electoral process: Boris Johnson government requires more checks on power

• Devolution: How Britain can bring power closer to the people

• Devolution: Boris Johnson faces a battle to save the union

• British constitution: Tories focus on major overhaul of House of Lords

• General elections: Boris Johnson’s big win with Conservatives

• Political global governance: The US needs Nato as much as ever

• Political ideas: The Berlin Wall and the rise of nationalism

• Political parties: Party platforms

• Electoral systems: Lib Dems fear promise to reverse Brexit has backfired

• Voting behaviour, elections: Johnson gains from voters’ lack of trust

• Select committees: Johnson accused of sitting on Russian ‘interference’ report

• Political parties: Parties’ spending plans signal the return of ‘1970s-sized state’

• US electoral process: Bloomberg presidential bid

• US government: Democrats open new phase in Donald Trump impeachment 

• British constitution: Johnson presses on with December poll

• Relationship between executive and parliament: Parliamentary reverse leaves Brexit plan in limbo

• Interpretations and debates of US presidency: Trump’s presidency degenerates

• Influence of the Supreme Court: Parliament the winner in prorogation case