Reports of such appalling behaviour – and Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s rising far-right party.
- Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Bath
Marine Le Pen ha sido excluida de la política durante cuatro años tras ser declarada culpable de malversación de fondos en su etapa como europarlamentaria.
Le Pen has been barred from politics for four years after being found guilty of embezzlement.
The former leader of the National Front has died, aged 96.
Unwilling to shake the hand of a far-right parliamentarian, François Piquemal sought an alternative that wouldn’t leave him open to criticisms of cancel culture.
Making a ‘boring’ campaign more exciting, or just distracting from the issues that matter most?
Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.
Extremists are not ‘capturing’ our systems – they are part of them.
France seems more divided than ever going into the run-off vote between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on May 7.
The language used by François Hollande and others implies extremism can be bombed out of existence. It can’t.
Face à l’horreur provoquée par cette nouvelle série d’attaques terroristes en France, il est urgent de ne pas céder à la peur et de ne pas stigmatiser les populations les plus fragiles.
IS claims responsibility for series of assaults. President Hollande says it is an ‘act of war’.
How did others in Europe cover the election and the surprising results?
The SNP, Plaid Cymru and UKIP are the new faces in the UK election in 2015 but they reflect a wider change.
Jean-Marie and Marine need to split up in a way that benefits them both.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo was an abominable tragedy. It struck the heart of one of our capitals and symbols of our democracies as terrorists attacked our freedom of the press. It is now essential to…
As far as Marine Le Pen is concerned: “The people have spoken.” The leader of the Front National, which has taken 25% of the French vote in the European Parliamentary elections claims her party is now…
It is widely predicted that far-right parties will be the big winners of the 2014 European elections. Some polls have even suggested that the French Front National, the Dutch Party for Freedom, the Austrian…
Marine Le Pen called the results of last weekend’s French local elections an “earthquake” – co-opting a phrase used about her father’s accession to the second round of the presidential elections in 2002…
Participation is commonly viewed as the cornerstone of liberal democracy. In Europe, however, the decades since the 1980s have been marked by falling participation and increased disillusionment with institutional…
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National in France, recently threatened to sue anyone who labelled her party as “extreme right”. This is interesting in many respects, most notably because it demonstrates…
For followers of British politics the narrative is familiar: populist right-wing party champions withdrawal from the European Union and a harder line on immigration and suddenly start pulling out remarkable…
Labor has just lost another election in Australia to the opposition in an electoral race that was dominated by negative messages, where both parties attempted unsuccessfully to differentiate themselves…
Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has won the French presidential election with 52% of the vote, ousting sitting president Nicolas Sarkozy. In hindsight, there have been few surprises in this campaign…
France went to sleep last weekend knowing that almost a fifth of those who felt compelled to vote in the first round of the presidential election chose a party formed on an openly neo-fascist platform…
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