Bethan Johnson

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Terrorism Outlawed: Why The UK’s Ban Of Neo-Nazi Group The Base Is Important

‘Führer, you were only the beginning. We will finish what you started. It’s not over yet—We carry the torch.’ So swore Norman Spear, the alleged leader of international white supremacist group, The…

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The radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeeze

For years, the online subculture surrounding gaming has faced accusations of dangerous links with the radical Right. Between the Gamergate controversy and counterterrorism practitioners identifying gaming platforms as popular potential sites of radicalisation,…

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Boys to men: the violent teenagers of the radical right

This article is part of a debate on Countering the Radical Right inviting people to answer the question: “should we be worried about white men?” “How wonderful it is to be an…

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The radical right is weaponising COVID-19 online

Isolation and fear are being used by the radical right to connect and indoctrinate people by spreading racist narratives about the virus. In the last four months, Coronavirus (COVID-19) has…

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6 min

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Far-Right Terrorism Is Now Britain’s Fastest Growing Problem

Since 2017, one-third of terror plots with an aim to kill were linked to far-right ideologies. In September, the highest-ranking counterterrorism officer in Britain, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu,…

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The Radical Right Seeks To Recruit Among Anti-Corporate Activists

Right-wing white nationalists are co-opting the language used by left-wing anti-corporate activists in order to expand their racist movement. ‘Corporate America doesn’t need to be destroyed, but just shown that…

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Cancel Morrissey? – controversy over music and free speech

These controversies persist because Morrissey has been able to continue to make statements in interviews, and to publicise even more on his website. On the iconic Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury…

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7 min

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Tracking German Neo-Nazism Through Music

German neo-Nazi bands attempt to appeal more broadly to an audience that is opposed to the government’s position on asylum seekers. Plato once wrote, in an argument postulating the banning…

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This Flag Is Your Flag, This Flag Is My Flag: The Alt-Right’s Appropriation of the American Flag

When reporters attempted to interview two protestors at the ‘white civil rights rally’, otherwise known as Unite the Right 2, on 12 August in Washington, D.C., the men obscured their…

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Terrorism Outlawed: Why The UK’s Ban Of Neo-Nazi Group The Base Is Important

The radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeeze

Boys to men: the violent teenagers of the radical right

The radical right is weaponising COVID-19 online

Far-Right Terrorism Is Now Britain’s Fastest Growing Problem

The Radical Right Seeks To Recruit Among Anti-Corporate Activists

Cancel Morrissey? – controversy over music and free speech

Tracking German Neo-Nazism Through Music

This Flag Is Your Flag, This Flag Is My Flag: The Alt-Right’s Appropriation of the American Flag

US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)