Populism

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

The investor has served up a hateful diet of culture war and conspiracy theory at GB News. Now he’s eyeing up the mainstream Tory media

We could be 100 days away from a far right takeover of the European Parliament. But is winning headlines the same as winning votes?

Populists are set to triumph in June’s EU elections, fuelled by fears over immigration, inflation and insecurity. How bad could it get?

It will be a year of political upheaval and war. If leaders can’t navigate a changing world order, the results could be disastrous

The populist leaders of Argentina and Venezuela fly under the radar in the northern hemisphere, but the threat they pose is very real

How close are populist leaders like Geert Wilders to fitting Umberto Eco’s definition of fascist traits?

This lesson is as old as the 1930s but clearly it takes a long time to learn

Geert Wilders and his party have taken hate into the mainstream

The ruling hard right party doesn’t have the votes to form a government. Can Donald Tusk put together a centrist ruling coalition?