Populism
Total 44 Posts
Why businesses embrace populists and what to do about it – Lessons from Hungary.
5 min read
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
Woodward’s book is a damning indictment – but not of the US president.
4 min read
I teach seminars on democracy in an age of populism at a major university in the American Midwest. Bob Woodward has just made my job that little bit harder.
How the coronavirus pandemic may be shaping our feelings about people crossing the Channel in small boats.
4 min read
At times of economic crisis, our feelings towards migrants can become hardened.
After Trump and Brexit: The coming of the progressive wave.
5 min read
Most populists are only against the system, they aren’t for anything in particular, as Donald Trump’s presidency and Brexit proves. A progressive wave will soon be upon us in response.
Nigel Farage travels in luxury to spy on how desperate refugees are being accommodated.
2 min read
Vigilante videos against desperate people. What’s next?
The long, slow grind continues.
12 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s brilliant Brexit analysis on state aid as a stumbling block, the attritional grind of emerging Brexit effects, and why there seems to be so little public concern. Faith, pragmatism, post-truth politics, and possible futures.
Distinguishing between ‘populism’ and ‘nativism’.
5 min read
What exactly do the words ‘populism’ and ‘nativism’ mean? Does it make sense to use them interchangeably, as is the case in the media?