England player Bukayo Saka was subjected to horrendous racist abuse after missing a penalty in the Euro 2020 final against Italy.
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The abuse heaped on players in high-profile matches is just the tip of the iceberg – a culture of online abuse permeates football at all levels.
Protests against the far right AfD in Germany.
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Our fast-track society has made voters impatient – the far right promises fast-track, simplistic solutions to complex problems.
Nigel Farage in one of his 10 appearances on Question Time in the last decade.
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The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
Emmanuel Macron calls for snap elections at a presidential address on 6 June 2024.
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Julien Robin, a specialist in French parliamentary life, looks at what the surprise dissolution means for French politics.
Marine Le Pen delivers a speech next to National Rally president Jordan Bardella after the first results of the European elections.
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Enviroment policies and executive roles now in the spotlight – while France faces a potentially divisive national election.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a break in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York.
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The intersectionality of hate, which combines racism, antisemitism and misogyny, leads the white heterosexual male to believe that he is a victim of the “minorities” he must resist.
Qualipu Mi’kmaw scholar Christopher Crocker has examined how fascination with Norse contact dominates Newfoundland tourism at the expense of pre-colonial Indigenous studies and representation. L’Anse-Aux-Meadow National Historic Site in northern Newfoundland.
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Indigenous and critical race approaches to narratives of the Middle Ages help reveal more accurate histories, and combat the misuses of ‘the medieval’ for hate.
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The far-right Alternative for Germany is courting the youth vote on TikTok with great success, ahead of the elections in June.
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Though it seemed like music for the inner cities, 2-Tone sought to take its message of inclusion to young people in less racially mixed small towns and rural areas too.
Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party, speaks during the National Conservatism conference in Brussels on April 16, 2024.
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Trying to silence the radical right isn’t the way forward. Not only is it likely to backfire, it will probably galvanize the movement’s leaders.
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New definitions don’t protect communities or deter extremists.
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Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.
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Being rightwing involves specific beliefs about the world but is also linked to our genes and environment.
The Cable Street Mural by Dave Binnington Savage, Paul Butler, Ray Walker and Desmond Rochfort (1979 – 1983).
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This is the story of how music became a battleground in the 1980s and 1990s, as antifascists fought fascism with guitars and microphones.
Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, arrives at the seat of government in Buenos Aires, accompanied by his sister Karina, on Dec. 10, 2023.
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Some aspects of Argentine President Javier Milei’s programme resemble the far right, but others do not. Without excluding him from this movement, we should recognize there are differences.
A sign put up by protesters near a hotel in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, where asylum seekers are reportedly to be housed.
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Tension has boiled over into threats of violence and suspicious fires at hotels accommodating asylum seekers.
Some women influencers are using coded language to spread far-right ideology on social media.
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Eviane Leidig talks about her research into women of the far right who have become online influencers. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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While tradwives emerge across the political spectrum, a small subculture use their platforms to promote the dark ideas of the far-right – including in Australia.
Grzegorz Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Polish parliament building.
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Grzegorz Braun’s act was a reminder of how antisemitism has been normalised by the outgoing administration.
Experts say the rise in far-right ideologies globally and social media influencers like Andrew Tate have impacted school age students.
Host Vinita Srivastava explores why racist, homophobic and sexist attitudes are increasingly showing up in school-age boys – and what we can do about it.