Britain First

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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)

Part 2: Modernisation, Funding & International Activism Attempts to Soften the BF Image Overall, BF presents a bizarre, schizoid image of a party that claims to be very strong on…

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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part 1)

Part 1: Origins, Ideology & Activism The far-right political party Britain First (BF) was originally formed in 2011 as an activist group campaigning on a white supremacist, anti-immigration and anti-Islam…

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Reports

CARR REPORT: FAR-RIGHT MOBILISATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN (FRGB DATASET) 2009-2019

You can request access the full dataset here, read more about the methodology for the collection of the dataset here, & cite the dataset using the reference below* CARR FRGB Dataset Research Report 1 Introduction…

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5 min

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Halal Hysteria: How Outrage About M&S Ready Meals Co-opted Radical Right Rhetoric

The radical right is once again using the fact a food retailer has begun selling halal meat as an excuse to allege “creeping sharia law.” In October, M&S announced that…

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5 min

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Reconfiguring Islamophobia and the Radical Right: a decade in retrospect

My new book, “Reconfiguring Islamophobia: a radical rethinking of a contested concept” (Palgrave Macmillan) marks a decade since the publication of my first book on the topic (“Islamophobia”, Ashgate). Through…

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5 min

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The UK’s “Hateful Extremism” report: more muddled thinking on an already over-crowded pitch

Within the context of our policies for Integration, Hate Crime and the Prevention of terrorism, do we need a “Hateful” Extremism policy at all? In October the results of the…

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5 min

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How the Radical Right Co-Opted Religion

While Christianity is on the decline in Europe, the effective co-option of Christian ideas and emblems among the radical right is continuing unabated. The recent publication of the British Social Attitudes…

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3 min

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Hermeneutical injustice and the far right?

Hermeneutical injustice is defined as the inability to communicate and/ or understand one’s own social experience, owing to a lack of concepts available in society used to define the experience.…

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6 min

Insights

Debate over regulating right-wing extreme speech online must shift to harms such speech can cause

Prioritising free speech above the harms that extreme speech may cause has dominated the moderation strategies of social media platforms. Note: This piece was originally published at Scroll.in as part…

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4 min

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Gateway Organizations: Understanding the Lure of the Radical Right

To date, the notion of gateway organizations has in the most part been used to help explain processes of radicalization in relation to Islamic extremist Islam. Since September 11, 2001,…

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Categories

‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)

‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part 1)

CARR REPORT: FAR-RIGHT MOBILISATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN (FRGB DATASET) 2009-2019

Halal Hysteria: How Outrage About M&S Ready Meals Co-opted Radical Right Rhetoric

Reconfiguring Islamophobia and the Radical Right: a decade in retrospect

The UK’s “Hateful Extremism” report: more muddled thinking on an already over-crowded pitch

How the Radical Right Co-Opted Religion

Hermeneutical injustice and the far right?

Gateway Organizations: Understanding the Lure of the Radical Right

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)