In the midst of the Brexit chaos, prominent Tories are using language that encourages the crank right and the wannabe militiamen. And the media is ignoring or making excuses for them.
New openDemocracy research exposes increasing connections between a network of US, Russian and other ultra-conservatives and senior European politicians.
Politicians, media and some academics have spent years peddling narratives that racism and Islamophobia are the ‘will of the people’, but the facts tell a very different story.
Was Brandon Lewis trying to mislead over the extent of Islamophobia in the Party when he said there were no outstanding complaints - or are his systems just completely broken?
A street magazine vendor led protests against prime minister Victor Orbán’s rewriting of history. He tells openDemocracy how his life led him to that point.
Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first post-revolutionary president, discusses neo-liberalism, the crisis in western democracies, and the relationship between Islamic terrorism and the rise of far-right politics.
Where to start in discussing Marine Le Pen’s visit to Lebanon? The French “Trump without the crazy” got her first meeting with a head of state and performed a successful media stunt.
