Why the far right has turned on the press
Recent unrest in England has revealed that intimidation, assault and abuse of journalists is on the rise.
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Understanding England’s anarchy
We must condemn these lawless riots – but we must also confront the anger behind them.
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Keir Starmer’s Elon Musk problem
The rancour of X’s digital square has spilled on to the English high street.
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Conservatives don’t know what to say about the far-right riots
It shouldn’t be hard for the party of law and order to come up with a line on a subject…
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Is cocaine driving the British riots?
Easy highs have become a national addiction.
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Social media has turned the riots into a spectacle
The former chief Crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal reveals how technology has both hurt and helped the state.
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The far right’s cynical rage
Labour is right to be worried about the threat of digitally stoked populism.
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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How the far right seduced France’s Gen Z
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have the following of political rock stars.
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Europe turns right
Parties of the hard right are in the ascendancy across the continent – but their political prospects are difficult to…
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How Europe’s hard right went mainstream
Across the continent, EU leaders have badly misread the nationalist surge.
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Can the rampant New Right challenge the power of Brussels?
This is just the start of Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni’s plot to remake the continent.
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America’s dime-store Nietzscheans
What the unmasking of an anonymous publisher and Twitter personality reveals about the far right in the US.
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How to stop the far right in Europe
The rise of anti-migrant populism is a metric for the EU’s policy failures. Address these, and it can be reversed.
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The best New Statesman Ideas essays of 2023
Our pick of the finest writing from the past year.
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Across Europe, far-right parties are rising
As the continent undergoes a rightwards shift, the liberal dream of open borders is dying.
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Anti-migrant protests are tearing Ireland apart
As hostility towards foreigners rises, the feted land of a thousand welcomes has slowly become an unhappy isle.
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Geert Wilders’ victory is a dire threat to the EU
The uncooperative presence of a populist-led Netherlands could wreck Brussels’ flagship legislative projects.
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Will Geert Wilders lead the most right-wing government in Europe?
After winning the most seats in this week’s election in the Netherlands, the hard-right Party for Freedom will decide the…
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The return of the two Germanys
The country is in economic and political crisis and parties of the extreme left and right are rising again.
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