Dishonesty now rules Scottish politics
The SNP and Labour are both watching on while the state dissolves and populists rise.
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Giorgia Meloni’s selective memory
The Italian prime minister’s autobiography revises her and her country’s history. But Meloni’s success is a template for right populist…
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The centre-right is cooked
The Tories too often give the impression that they think Reform is right but people should not vote for them.
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A new force is stirring on the left
Eco-populism is coming for the Labour Party.
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Laughing at the populist right is not a political strategy
The civil wars within Maga and Reform UK only show how dangerous they are.
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Europe’s far-right paradox
Anti-immigration populists are creating instability across the continent – whether mainstream parties work with them or against them.
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How Scotland learned to love Nigel Farage
The same energy that once fuelled the independence campaign is now behind Reform UK.
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What is Nigel Farage thinking now?
Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.
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The English rebel
Like other dissident populists before him, Nigel Farage has already changed British history – and he isn’t done yet.
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Nigel Farage’s mutinous army
Reform’s local election rally in Birmingham was soured by pessimism – and rumblings of internal dissent.
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Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
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Elon Musk shows the perils of populism
Politicians must set clear boundaries or they will be taken to a very dark place.
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Why is Elon Musk tweeting about Britain’s grooming gangs?
The British right should be wary of importing American populism.
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Nigel Farage won’t become prime minister
The problem for Reform is the gap between its positions and those of the country.
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Why the assassination of Brian Thompson ignited American politics
The UnitedHealthcare CEO is seen as part of a supposedly tyrannical oligarchy.
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The counter-elite gambled on Trump and won
The energy in politics is with the populist right – and the left doesn’t know how to respond.
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Bill Clinton reckons with populism
In his memoir, Citizen, the former president struggles to understand why his brand of post-New Deal American liberalism has failed.
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The farmers’ revolt is coming for Labour
This march could be the first stirring of a populist rebellion against the government.
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Jordan Peterson’s prophecies
The Canadian thinker’s self-made deity is a symptom of the modern Western malady.
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Kevin Roberts’s fire-breathing American right
In his book Dawn’s Early Light, the architect of Project 2025 preaches the necessity of burning Washington’s “elite” institutions to…
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