April 2018

Insights

Debating the Intellectual Leader of the French New Right

I am the author of two books about the French nouvelle droite (ND): Where Have All the Fascists Gone? and Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity. In 2014, I published a piece…

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4 min

Insights

The Rise of Fascist Fashion: Clothing helps the Far Right sell their violent message

In the months since white supremacist blogger Andrew Anglin urged his followers to dress in “hip” and “cool” ways at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., far-right fashion has rapidly evolved. The…

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1 min

News

The Silicon Valley mantra of ‘move fast and break things’ has fallen miserably short

In the below guest op-ed for New Statesman, CARR Senior Fellow Dr Bharath Ganesh talks about the exploitation of social media by the extreme right and what practical actions social media…

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4 min

Insights

Hungary’s Fidesz secure another term with two-thirds majority

In what has been a blow to the gut of many Hungarians, the radical right Fidesz party has won a third term in power. Fidesz-KDNP won by a large plurality…

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8 min

Reports

Teaching on the Extreme Right Workshop Report: New Challenges, Fresh Approaches (12/04/2018)

On 12th April, academics, researchers, teachers and other practitioners came together at the University of Northampton to discuss how to teach about the extreme right. We wanted to find out…

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5 min

Insights

Corpus Linguistics and the Problem of Non-Violent Extremism

During the 2016-17 Home Affairs Select Committee on Radicalisation, Google claimed that, in 2014, they had removed over 14 million videos relating to different forms of abuse, including content that…

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5 min

Insights

Mood Swings: Freedom, Democracy and the Latest Right-Wing Populist Upsurge

Democracy is presently in a recession. Freedom House’s (an independent research institute) annual report for 2018 indicates that for the 10th consecutive year the world’s citizens, taken in the aggregate,…

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5 min

Insights

Back to the Future? Comparing Radical Right Referendum Results, 1975 and 2016

It is hard to deny Brexit’s important place within recent radical right discourse and activity. Recently, Paul Stocker’s excellent book English Uprising has captured this part of that debate. The…

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4 min

Insights

Islamophobia, racism and the far-right … and the right … and the left …

How different was the world in 1997? That was the year when the Runnymede Trust published its landmark report on Islamophobia, drawing attention to the then growing threat of anti-Muslim…

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Categories

Debating the Intellectual Leader of the French New Right

The Rise of Fascist Fashion: Clothing helps the Far Right sell their violent message

The Silicon Valley mantra of ‘move fast and break things’ has fallen miserably short

Hungary’s Fidesz secure another term with two-thirds majority

Teaching on the Extreme Right Workshop Report: New Challenges, Fresh Approaches (12/04/2018)

Corpus Linguistics and the Problem of Non-Violent Extremism

Mood Swings: Freedom, Democracy and the Latest Right-Wing Populist Upsurge

Back to the Future? Comparing Radical Right Referendum Results, 1975 and 2016

Islamophobia, racism and the far-right … and the right … and the left …

Attacks on academic freedom escalate in France and Denmark

The Global Anti-Abortion Movement Continues To Mobilize Post-Trump

What’s Next For Street-Based Manifestations Of The Radical Right In The UK?

In Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracy

5 Years After The Munich Shooting: Why It Should Be Remembered As Right-Wing Terrorism