The New Right: How a Frenchman born 150 years ago inspired the extreme nationalism behind Brexit and Donald Trump.
We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself. [Read now...]
Matteo Salvini is down, but here’s why he isn’t out for the count just yet.
The former deputy prime minister has been outmanouevered by his government partners – but he thrives in opposition. [Read now...]
How a friend went from Corbyn fan to far-right supporter.
I have seen a friend turn into a far-right person who believes in white replacement, white supremacy and the patriarchy, Cyrus Bales writes. [Read now...]
How far-right groups use Britain’s extremism definition to argue they aren’t extremist.
Why the extremism definition is unfit for purpose. Central to the problem is the government’s insistence on using ‘fundamental British values’ to define extremism. [Read now...]
FaceApp — Things are not what they seem... You. Are. The. Product.
With FaceApp, Dr Helen de Cruz discovers a whole new level of creepy. [Read now...]
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PMP EXCLUSIVE
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Opinion, AI, AlphaGo, Carole Cadwalla, Data Collection, Deepfake, FaceApp, Far-Right, Long-Read, Online Privacy, Russia, Tech
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‘New nationalism’: The real reason it’s so scary.
Nativist rhetoric is nothing new. But ideas once considered fringe are now being absorbed into the mainstream. [Read now...]
Brexit — With understanding comes progress.
Dr Helen De Cruz puts the pieces of the Brexit jigsaw puzzle together. On Austerity, the far-right and the Brexit Party. [Read now...]
We need to talk about Austria.
How one event in Austria reveals a lot about the way UK political parties and politicians may work with foreign influencers to destroy the European Union. [Read now...]
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Tom Moriarty
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Opinion, Far-Right, Fascism, Brexit, Brexiters, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Austria
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A legitimating moment for European bigotry?
Opinion polls indicate a surge in support for the far-right ahead of the elections, which could make it the second largest force in the European Parliament with up to 35% of all seats. [Read now...]
The false dichotomy of authoritarianisms.
The fallacy of the false dichotomy is an assertion that there are two and only two possibilities that are mutually exclusive, but of which one must exist. Black and white thinking of this kind is easy to fall into, pairs being simple to comprehend. [Read now...]
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Greg Camp
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Opinion USA, Democracy, Donald Trump, Far-Right, Totalitarianism
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Austerity has created the perfect fertile compost for populism and nationalism to flourish.
On why a political void has slowly filled up with extremist ideologies and far-right sirens that lured voters away from mainstream parties. [Read now...]
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PMP EXCLUSIVE
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Populism, Nationalism, Far-Right, Brexit, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Opinion
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Resist the allure of hard-right cargo cults.
On why far-right nativists, nationalist Pied Piper figures and senior Brexiters, who have significant opportunity to profit from a No-Deal Brexit, are precisely the wrong people to be listening to. [Read now...]
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Will Black
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Opinion, Brexit, Brexiters, Far-Right, Nationalism, UK Politics
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