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Wednesday 17 August
The summer of discontent
It started with an ordinarily looking Facebook page, advocating a boycott of a common Israeli cottage cheese for its costly price (£1.50 for 250g).
Wednesday 17 August
It started with an ordinarily looking Facebook page, advocating a boycott of a common Israeli cottage cheese for its costly price (£1.50 for 250g).
Thursday 6 October
On the last stretch of the campaign before Poland’s parliamentary elections, which take place this Sunday, few pundits dare to predict the vote’s outcome, as opinion polls have swung back and forth over the past few weeks…
Thursday 9 February
It says a lot about a country when the top health official’s declaration of war against smoking stirs a backlash.
Wednesday 24 March
On 15 March, Canadian embassies and consulates around the world were subjected to rare displays of political theatre, much of it both angry and scantily clad.
Monday 17 October
For the past few years, visitors exiting Israel’s Ben Gurion airport parking lot have all had a campaigning message printed on their receipt.
Cheap and chic bicycle advertising, plus *Monocle*'s music recommendations.
Independent from the Soviet Union since 1991, and finally emerging from years of corruption, oil-rich Azerbaijan is now planning a diplomatic campaign to change its image. But to fill its new embassies – 16 so far this year…
Sunday 2 May
As Gordon Brown blunders his way across Britain, party spin-doctors have called in Stephen Hopkins, director of the nail-biting television series 24, to take charge of election videos. But Labour should be looking to Hun…
Thursday 12 April
The official campaign for the French presidential election began this week.
There’s a real sense that we are entering a new era, with a fresh, sharp president in the White House and an economy in flux. Here five leading thinkers, writers and academics – Alain de Botton, Paula Scher, Andrew J Bac…
Sunday 24 June
As November approaches, the US presidential candidates are going full throttle on the campaign trail.
Tuesday 2 October
During the 2004 presidential election campaign John Kerry was described, somewhat implausibly, as the “greatest debater since Cicero”.
As candidates ramp up the spending on their US presidential election campaigns, we look at some of the businesses that do very nicely when the party purse-strings are open.
The view from the US campaign trail, fracking in Argentina and how the odds are looking for Mexico to get its first female president.
The view from the campaign trail, the sartorial style of Uruguay's president, plus Brazilian coffee, Chilean traffic and Canadian education.
The view from the Aussie campaign trail, plus political strife in the world's smallest republic.
Saturday 23 October
Listening to the candidates running to be Toronto’s next mayor you would think they were campaigning against the city they aspire to run.
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