Populism

Dead aged 96, the founder of the Front National spent a lifetime injecting hatred, bigotry and division into Europe’s political bloodstream

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

While the European Parliament looks set to take a turn towards the right, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the AfD will gain influence

A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe

Rassemblement National’s European election candidate Jordan Bardella was humiliated in a TV debate. So why do opinion polls say he won?

The country's political and social hostilities have reached a dangerous moment

People in Tbilisi are protesting Georgia’s Russification. Instead, they want to be part of the EU

The populist prime minster is on a crusade to turn the country’s pubic service broadcaster into a state-controlled institution

The former home secretary is back on manoeuvres with her hard right agenda – and in Fareham, her local supporters are loving it

Viktor Orbán’s support for Trump and Putin could give rise to a terrifying axis, and with it bring about the end of liberal democracy

Chega’s campaign is a measure of the party’s anti-liberal, extreme character

Her plan will only work if she can deliver growth, clean energy and rising wages