There is a lot of talk about the Purcell principle in legal circles around election time. Dahlia Lithwick: Can you help explain this weedy principle that is not found anywhere concrete and is just a feelings-ball, zeitgeisty thing related to the Supreme Court’s not allowing some last-minute interventions in elections, except for when they do? It was going to take …
Both the prime minister and the health secretary have proposed that weight-loss jabs would help the unemployed return to the workplace. Archbishop Justin Welby has described a parliamentary bill that would give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to end their lives as “dangerous”. There are many complex discussions to be had around this issue, but do …
How can Nitish respond to this elections? However, he made a bizarre choice in 2017 and compromised his own stature and ‘Bihar’s brand of politics’ by realigning with the BJP led by Narendra Modi. Projected like a consensus process on Nitish Kumar 2.0, the mandate through 2020 Bihar elections is morally making it untenable for him to play a second …
Once Hailed as Trudeau’s ‘worst nightmare’, the New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh has seen his popularity crater, his party is in a bad shape and his first election win is scratchy at best Ultimately, it were 2,929 votes that may have saved Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, from a political demise that would have …
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