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A long purposeful life, his 45 year post-presidency full of same values before being 39th #POTUS. From advancing democracy The Carter Center to Habitat for Humanity & eradicating Guinea worm (1986: 3.5m cases, 2022: 12) As Luke wrote “a good & faithful servant” #JimmyCarter100 #JimmyCarter

Today's off-the-shelf BritPol essay/exam question comes from the Financial Times's Stephen Bush: '"Broadly speaking, parties do well when they learn from the other lot’s successes" (Stephen Bush). Discuss.'

Very nice way to start the week - meeting up with ⁦Jacinda Ardern⁩ to talk past, present and future (and of course future podcast interview too). The world needs more politicians like her right now. Now off to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩ event Cardiff.

We were delighted to welcome former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern into the office today to talk to the team about how proportional representation has worked in New Zealand.

Deeply saddened by news of passing of John Prescott, long serving UK MP & deputy prime minister to Tony Blair. Old Labour to his core & a character. John visited NZ as DPM, & addressed ⁦New Zealand Labour⁩ annual conference. A great friend to us. RIP 🥀 theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Whatever you think about politics this is such a joy to watch because it's a politician - John Prescott - who believes in what he's selling, taking on an audience largely hostile to his ideas and challenging their beliefs with his own well-founded arguments. It doesn't matter who

4 parties got more than 10% of the vote for first time dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… New Electoral Reform Society report on General Election

The Carter Center will provide updates about ceremonies and activities to honor the life of President Carter as they become available here and soon on the official Carter Family Tribute Site (jimmycartertribute.org). Read our statement: cartercenter.org/news/pr/2024/s…

"If I have one regret, I do wish we'd have been able to change the way we elect governments in this country, being able to choose second and third choices" Trudeau talking about his wish to have done electoral reform

Tomorrow’s The Rest Is Politics LEADING interview guest is Yulia Navalnaya one year on from the murder of her husband. As Trump and Co fail to blame Putin even for the Ukraine invasion, her voice about the Putin regime is more important than ever

Deeply shocked to see the bullying & attempted intimidation of President Zelenskyy in Oval Office today. President Zelenskyy’s people are suffering hugely as they defend their freedom. They & their leader deserve support not abuse. Europe must now step up: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

Who are the "Reform-curious" Labour voters? My take for the Financial Times on new research from Steve Akehurst ... it's not going to be easy for Farage to hook them or for Starmer to woo them back on.ft.com/3GprOf2