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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Bethan Johnson
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…