George Newth is Lecturer in Politics at University of Bath,
He is a member of the Reactionary Politics Research Network for which he co-convenes a fortnightly reading group to discuss relevant publications.
George's research focuses principally on the how far-right parties attempt to normalise their reactionary politics via discourses of common sense. This links to broader research interests pertaining to the role of populism and nativism in far right articulations of regionalist and nationalist politics.
His book with Routledge, Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective, investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic’s oldest surviving political party, the populist far-right Lega (Nord), tracing its origins to post-war Italy.