Populism

The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar

Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent 'public opinion' - they simply reflect the radical right views of those 'who own and run them', argues Julian Petley

Nicole Burgund reports from inside one of Europe's most important protests

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the nationalist populist drift of Labour's anti-progressive tendency

Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities

There is a concerted global effort to undermine the very concept of evidence-based policy and scientific progress, argues Kit Yates

One of the biggest triumphs of the modern political right has been to close the space in which nuance and ambiguity can even sit, writes Hardeep Matharu

“Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago

By paying attention to our complex and often contradictory humanness, we can keep our integrity through chaos and disruption

Cabo Verde is not a rich country. To have an idea, the minimum wage is €130 a month and a meal in a restaurant costs around €10. The IMF classifies Cabo Verde as a developing country. Development has long ceased to be defined in exclusively economic terms. In 1990, a “human development index” was introduced, […]