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The boat protests: unprecedented but unsurprisingIn the Spotlight Patriot Platform protests disrupted the UK’s biggest ferry port for hours, and tried to prevent lifeboats from rescuing asylum seekers
By The Week UK Published
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‘There is no excuse of ignorance about the AfD’s rise’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
By Justin Klawans, The Week US Published
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Far-right win tests German post-Nazi ‘firewall’Speed Read No far-right party has governed a German city or state since World War II
By Peter Weber, The Week US Published
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What an AfD Germany would look likeThe Explainer Far-right party on course to win state elections for first time, with plan to implement radical policy platform focused on immigration and family
By The Week UK Published
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Has the anti-AfD firewall failed in Germany?Today's Big Question Far-right party set to break through in state elections, as cordon sanitaire designed to keep them out backfires
By Elliott Goat, The Week UK Published
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What will the new Colombian president’s right-wing push mean for the country?Today’s Big Question Abelardo de la Espriella hopes to remake Colombia in his image
By Justin Klawans, The Week US Published
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EU prosecutors raid right-wing bloc over fundsSpeed Read Raids were conducted as part of an investigation into the embezzlement of European Union funds by the former far-right Identity and Democracy group
By Rafi Schwartz, The Week US Published
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Will ‘Il Generale’ turn Italy upside down?In the Spotlight Roberto Vannacci has been hailed on the far-right as the new Julius Caesar, causing PM Giorgia Meloni a ‘splitting political headache’
By The Week UK Published
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Remigration: a growing far-right movementThe Explainer Once a fringe position, calls for mass deportation are spreading throughout Europe and entering mainstream politics
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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Equality guidelines: in need of reform?Today's Big Question Diversity and inclusion laws have ‘presented Reform UK with an open goal’ but Badenoch has ‘spied her opportunity’ in the culture wars
By The Week UK Published
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Prevent and the changing landscape of British extremismThe Explainer The UK’s counter-terrorism scheme has been blighted by well-publicised failures and accusations of prejudice. Is it fit for purpose?
By The Week UK Published
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‘Each feminist advance in American public life has prompted an equally strong backlash’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
By Justin Klawans, The Week US Published
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Restore Britain: is new far-right party a threat to Farage?The Explainer Rupert Lowe’s upstart outfit could cost Reform UK crucial votes or drag it even further to the right
By The Week UK Published
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Why Hungary’s elections matter to the global rightTHE EXPLAINER The far-right has long looked to Viktor Orbán’s government as the model for its ultra-nationalist project. With days to go before Hungary’s national election, they’re starting to worry.
By Rafi Schwartz, The Week US Published
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