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If our politicians are really concerned about the future, they’ve got a funny way of talking about it.
The normal rules of political engagement – coherence, consistency, fact, logic, proportion – do not apply to members of the paranoid right like Pauline Hanson.
The latest polls show Wilders’ PVV on course to be largest party in the Dutch parliament.
Many politicians in the West – from backers of Brexit to Donald Trump – have convinced voters that immigrants are hurting their economies. The evidence suggests otherwise.
The Brexit vote was the outcome of the disillusionment and disengagement that have permeated the UK. Many Europeans share that mood, which is why both the UK and EU need radical democratic surgery.
Radical right populists are on the brink of power in Austria and making gains across the region. And the European leaders who once were willing to publicly condemn them are silent now.
Tone of talk about immigrants and political clashes has been changing.
This year’s presidential campaign was dominated by panic over a far-right surge – but its real meaning is somewhat different.
The notorious Freedom Party is on the march again, and the country’s moderates are crumbling in its path.
Mimicking fascists doesn’t help you win votes; it helps the fascists win votes.
France was left reeling by the attacks of January 2015 and things only got worse as the year unfolded – so why the political inertia?
With its share of the vote rising with each election, can the extreme-right party take power on its own? The example of the French communists during the postwar boom suggests otherwise.
France’s extreme-right party has national ambitions, but its lead in the first round of local elections puts it in direct contradiction with its long-proclaimed ideology.
The far-right Front National leads after the first round of voting, leaving Hollande and Sarkozy with some thinking to do.
Angela Merkel is entering her first proper war by joining the campaign against Islamic State.
IS claims responsibility for series of assaults. President Hollande says it is an ‘act of war’.
Far-right movements and parties in Australia will continue to create interest, given their policies and method of operation. Their future longevity, however, is by no means assured.
Anti-immigration protesters carried nooses through the streets of Prague as police stood by without acting.
The extreme right and extreme left have found themselves united against Europe.
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