Alan Waring

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Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

In evaluating radical-right grand conspiracy theories, I confess to originally qualifying as an industrial chemist and declare my position as a skeptic in the tradition of the ‘father of chemistry’,…

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“Infamy! Infamy! They’ve All Got It Infamy!”* The Paranoid Delusions of Radical Right Conspiracism

*Kenneth Williams as Caesar in Carry On Cleo (1964) Numerous online networks serve radical-right conspiracy theories. One of the highest profiles is QAnon, which alleges a ‘deep state’ conspiracy run…

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The Multifaceted Threats Of The Radical Right

In a recent Safety Science article, George Boustras and I identify five main non-mutually exclusive and often overlapping ‘security’ categories: Political, economic and military threats: enemy states, armed conflict, revolution, insurgency, cyber-attacks,…

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The Dark Money That Fuels Radical Right Ideology

Financial support for political parties and interests within democracies is not of itself unlawful, and indeed is commonplace across the political spectrum. However, given the radical-right’s objectives and policies that…

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6 min

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The Similarities In Far-Right Islamophobia And Anti-Semitism

In the modern radical right, there are several parallels between their Islamophobic and anti-Semitic narratives. Anti-Semitism in the West has a long and awful history stretching back centuries. However, although…

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Can the Radical Right’s Reductionist Narrative Withstand Real-World Complexity?

The radical right indulges in the erasure from its narrative of inconvenient or unwelcome facts from the accepted knowledge base of history and science. There is a general recognition that…

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Impacts of Islamophobia on Some Muslims in Two Western Countries

From the wide range of studies, reports and publications, from such bodies as SETA[1],[2] and academics [3](many of them CARR Fellows), it is evident that Islamophobia in both Britain and…

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Radical-Right Demonization of Soleimani and Iran: Islamophobic Weaponry in the Public Sphere

“We all know Iran, don’t we? Or at least we think we do”. So said John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, on air in the early 1990s. A veteran Iran…

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Jekyll-and-Hyde: What Creates a Far-Right Supporter? Part 2.

Part 1 of this blog summarised current psychological theories relevant to understanding far-right personalities and behaviour. The following sections summarise the data on three non-violent far-right supporters, and analyse to…

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Jekyll-and-Hyde: What Creates a Far-Right Supporter? Part 1.

Much has been written about the development of the personalities and other psychological characteristics of Alt-Right/far-right leaders such as Donald Trump (e.g. authors in Cruz and Buser, 2017; Waring &…

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Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

“Infamy! Infamy! They’ve All Got It Infamy!”* The Paranoid Delusions of Radical Right Conspiracism

The Multifaceted Threats Of The Radical Right

The Dark Money That Fuels Radical Right Ideology

The Similarities In Far-Right Islamophobia And Anti-Semitism

Can the Radical Right’s Reductionist Narrative Withstand Real-World Complexity?

Impacts of Islamophobia on Some Muslims in Two Western Countries

Radical-Right Demonization of Soleimani and Iran: Islamophobic Weaponry in the Public Sphere

Jekyll-and-Hyde: What Creates a Far-Right Supporter? Part 2.

Jekyll-and-Hyde: What Creates a Far-Right Supporter? Part 1.

Right Rising Podcast (Season One, Episode Eight): Women and Gender in the Extreme Right

Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

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