Populism

The tech bro’s ally Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming German chancellor

The leader of one of Germany’s main political parties relied on the extreme right wing AfD party to get his immigration bill through parliament. Big mistake

Some readers are less concerned about the number of people coming to Britain and more worried about the lack of integration

A populist surge across Europe is being fuelled by young people sick of broken promises, stagnant wages and waning hope. How can Keir Starmer respond?

We need government to lead, to inspire and to give people hope. Talk in language that ordinary folk use, and actually go and listen and learn

Could the sleeping giant of Germany’s silent majority mobilise against the AfD?

There's a thin line between "progressives got a lot wrong" and "the far right are winning because they're right"

Stop shouting about how appalled we are by Trump and Farage and learn from our mistakes, to build our own disruptive new agenda of change, respect for ordinary people and pride in our country

Meta firing its fact-checkers is about more than sucking up to Trump. It kickstarts a global fight over the rules of the internet and free speech

The outlook for Europe appears dangerous. Expanding the single market would change things. But can it be done?

With his conspiracy theories, pro-Russian propaganda and hatred of migrants, Le Pen inspired a generation of far right leaders across Europe

After the crisis of October’s parliamentary elections, president Salome Zourabichvili has been the country’s most prominent voice of dissent

Surprise political forces were the story of 2016. Now the world knows they are here to stay – and Britain should brace itself

Labour is a swirl of competing interest groups and right now “the Deliverers” are in charge. But will they be able to see off Musk, Reform and the populist right?

Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?

Between the woman in the red jacket and the man in the red jumper, it was the audience who stole the show in the big face-off between Alastair Campbell and Nigel Farage

Across the world, a new coalition is growing – of exhausted people on all sides who are gunning for Scholz, Macron... and Starmer

Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last

A rudderless EU ignored Trump’s threat and is now terrified and alone. It has two choices – go into overdrive or become irrelevant

Now stoking rumours about Keir Starmer’s private life, the right wing activist uses her journalistic platform to push her political agenda

EU institutions have got into the nasty habit of making concessions to populists who have spent their lives railing against Brussels

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

The far right AfD is poised for major wins this weekend’s eastern state elections amid rising discontent

Since 2017, Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the right) has grown into a national and international force

This was supposed to be the year populism triumphed. But a push towards its most extreme followers could be fatal

Young people seem increasingly drawn to extremist politics

The race rioters spring from the same root as the jihadists

GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

Does Belgium’s political limbo and the Netherlands’ far-right surge demonstrate that governments are optional?

Amid faint glimmers of hope, the European elections showed that a politics the world hoped was long gone is back on the march