Is the far right winning, and what’s the prize? We sent our reporter, Sian Norris, to the Political Network for Values’ seventh annual transatlantic summit in Brussels to find out. Little known outside the world of anti-gender activists, the PNfV has racked up political successes that other far-right groups can only dream of. In her piece, Sian pairs her reporting from the conference with a dive into the Epstein files to reveal the truly networked nature of the right.
Meanwhile, as the Trump presidency continues to lay waste to the global order, our Latin America correspondent, Angelina de los Santos, reports on how Latin America interprets what’s unfolding in Venezuela, while Paul Rogers explains that Iran has more options than Trump and Netanyahu imagine.
Finally, I know this newsletter goes on a lot about the coarsening discourse around migration (and I can imagine you, dear reader, are fatigued by this subject), but I can’t help observing that this week saw Manchester’s favourite Monaco tax resident Jim Ratcliffe claim that the UK was being “colonised by immigrants”. To be honest, on weeks like this, I’m at a loss as to what we at openDemocracy should do to support a sane conversation. Do you have any thoughts? Is our coverage missing something?
