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Test yourself on the week of July 22: Spain heads to the polls, Israel forces through a judicial overhaul, and Putin courts African leaders.

REGULAR readers of this column will know I’m a bit of a stickler for canny and considered tactics when it comes to political campaigning. Perhaps it stems from decades of witnessing other peoples’ struggles against injustice and poverty or striving for something better and, in some cases, an independent nation of their own. Time and again, I’ve been in countries and situations where, as an outsider, it’s often easier to identify what tactically works and what doesn’t than many of ...