Farage’s successor says hers is the ‘opposition party in waiting’. But it’s going to need a plan beyond Brexit.
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We are witnessing the global rise of populism. Once seen as a fringe phenomenon from another era or only certain parts of the world, populism is a mainstay of politics today across the globe.
The people wanted reform but they got excuses, and now populism is winning.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has caught referendum fever. He is giving his public a vote on refugee policy in what is being seen as a two-fingered salute to the EU.
The major presidential candidates each gave an economic address this week. Get behind the problems they identified and the promises they made with this roundup of key coverage from our archive.
Pressure from online comments can cause our democratically elected leaders to act in the strangest ways.
Both the Republican and Democratic platforms show a shift away from globalization, thanks to the influence of the rise of populists in both parties.
What’s a single-issue party to do once it has achieved it’s only ambition?
Europe at the moment is divided into two stark responses to the EU – exit or remain. A third, better option would be to stay, but challenge and change it from within.
The stakes would be even higher for other member states, but populists are bound to make a play for their own referendums.
Far-right populism and hatred do not erupt, they are stoked.
The establishment media wants it one way, and the populist left another. Why is there so little straight reporting on Latin America?
Watch Anne Tiernan and Duncan McDonnell discuss the popularity of minor parties and independents in this election – including what the Nick Xenophon Team learnt from the Palmer United Party.
In a world out of balance, one in which arrogance and unaccountability combine in a corrosive synergy, humility can offer a powerful alternative vision of how to approach democratic government.
Austria and the almost victory of the far right is a canary in a coal mine. A new political divide is emerging on both sides of the Atlantic.
Why are populist candidates all the rage this year in the race for the White House? Recent research from Harvard and BU links it to the market economy and a similar trend in Europe.
The future of democracy depends on developing a left-wing populism that can revive public interest by mobilising political passions in the fight for an alternative to neoliberal de-democratisation.
The 1968 presidential election saw belligerent, race-baiting populism in full flower. Sound familiar?
Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ which described the rise of an American dictator, was turned into a play seen by over 500,000 people.
Rule one: don’t lose ‘ownership’ of the issue.
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