What happened to the pop culture resistance?
From shallow protest in 2016 to outright endorsement in 2024, Donald Trump has been given an easy ride.
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Southport and the rage of England
The violence of the summer has left deep scars, and open wounds, across the country.
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Undercover: Exposing the Far Right reveals a vile network of pathetic fascists
This film from Hope Not Hate – pulled from the London Film Festival on safety grounds – has a lot…
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There is an intellectual sickness on the American right
When free speech is treated as the highest good, it gives rise to shock-jock politics.
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Germany’s lesson for Labour
Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders to mass migration has proved a gift to the far right.
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The far right’s triumph has left Germany in a mess
The firewalls that prevent the country’s centrist parties from governing with the radical right and left are cracking.
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Germany’s hard-right architecture
Conservatives are reconstructing their own imagined nation.
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How Telegram fosters online extremism
The under-regulated platform lacks transparency. The Southport riots remind us why this matters.
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Tommy Robinson is no working-class hero
His account of Luton misrepresents the town and people I knew.
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Why the far right has turned on the press
Recent unrest in England has revealed that intimidation, assault and abuse of journalists is on the rise.
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Understanding England’s anarchy
We must condemn these lawless riots – but we must also confront the anger behind them.
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Keir Starmer’s Elon Musk problem
The rancour of X’s digital square has spilled on to the English high street.
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Conservatives don’t know what to say about the far-right riots
It shouldn’t be hard for the party of law and order to come up with a line on a subject…
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Is cocaine driving the British riots?
Easy highs have become a national addiction.
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Social media has turned the riots into a spectacle
The former chief Crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal reveals how technology has both hurt and helped the state.
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The far right’s cynical rage
Labour is right to be worried about the threat of digitally stoked populism.
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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How the far right seduced France’s Gen Z
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have the following of political rock stars.
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Europe turns right
Parties of the hard right are in the ascendancy across the continent – but their political prospects are difficult to…
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How Europe’s hard right went mainstream
Across the continent, EU leaders have badly misread the nationalist surge.
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