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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionVoters didn’t believe a better world was possible. So what now?Rather than blaming Corbyn/Brexit and retreating into nativist neoliberalism, Labour must ally itself more deeply...
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Published in: Global ExtremesIslamophobia is Boris Johnson’s problem nowLabour Party’s abject failure to address anti-Semitism has garnered headlines, but hatred of Muslims is even more...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe UK's “Hateful Extremism” report: more muddled thinking on an already over-crowded pitchWithin the context of our policies for Integration, Hate Crime and the Prevention of terrorism, do we need a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Labour and the 2019 Brexit ElectionA failure to come to terms with the changing structure of society under the impact of globalisation holds lessons...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?It is the Trident submarine captain, not the UK PM, who “presses the button”Does he know why he is firing his warheads and who he is firing them at? Or whether it is lawful?
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe ‘gender turn’ of the populist radical rightGender perspectives are essential to understanding the means through which populist radical right parties...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismBringing gender into the populism debate: a guided walkopenDemocracy’s latest partnership launches with an ambitious question to answer.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismMarine Le Pen’s goosebump politicsMarine Le Pen as a rightwing populist is rather adored by supporters for her extraordinary ability to be a sexual...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe “genocide on mothers”: moral panic underpinning anti-gender campaigns in CzechiaHas the new femonationalism solved the riddle of how to be a strong woman while supporting a fundamentally...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circleFor every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Closing the Vučjak Camp doesn’t resolve the humanitarian crisis for migrants in Bosnia“Neither the European Union nor the central government has lifted a finger.”
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Tory war on truth – and how to fight backLabour should have made this election a referendum on the whole political system.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?When big business captures the state: murder by capitalismMalta has a ‘Labour’ government whose major battle cry has been to be the most business-friendly government in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU-Africa nexus: promise and purposeOnly by recognizing and sharing the values derived from its unique transnational experience can Europe meet the...
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Published in: HomeClimate emergency: the democracy forkReinvigorating democracy has to be as urgent a demand as cutting emissions. The latter can only be sustained insofar...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightFootball fandom and fascist generals: Bulgaria’s radical rightThe hateful actions of the furthest fringes tend to be tolerated, downplayed or even ignored.
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionThe unravelling of the Reithian BBCHow essential is the particular construction of Britishness which underpinned the Reithian BBC to the governing...
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Published in: HomeIs the USA withdrawing from the Middle East?An increasingly limited US influence in the Middle East is exacerbated by policies that aggravate conflicts and lead...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Samos refugees: a reluctant update on enduring crueltiesThis is what I witness on this little Greek island that finds itself on the frontier of Europe. This tiny spot on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?New authoritarian zeitgeist: family resemblancesWhat these regimes have in common is the “man-made” nature of the Zeitgeist. Democracies are not dying in the world...