Populism

Frank Furedi’s wearying In Defence of Populism reveals it offers no coherent and workable policy agenda and relies on authoritarian ‘solutions’

Jared Isaacman’s bid to restore Pluto’s planetary status looks less like science and more like populism in space

Populist leaders share the same weakness – their unrealistic promises can’t survive contact with reality, so their governments are doomed from the start. And when failure inevitably comes, voters must suffer the consequences

Péter Magyar managed it in Hungary. Can his counterpart be found here to avoid the catastrophe of Nigel Farage?

Péter Magyar has a huge challenge ahead of him to repair the catastrophic damage done to Hungary by Viktor Orbán. The first job is to clear out all of his corrupt cronies

He spent over a decade tearing up the rules of Hungarian politics and society, and became a model for the new authoritarian global right. And now he’s out, the country is overwhelmed with joy

The autocrat’s defeat is a blow to Trump, Putin - and populists like Nigel Farage

You can be an expert in logic and still espouse the worst values

Liam Byrne has written another note – this time on how the government can find its own story and stop Reform. Will No 10 listen?

The American writer and activist tells us not to despair – the monsters may be pushing back hard, but momentum remains with progressives

Sara Duterte, the vice president of the Philippines, is so extreme she once threatened to dig up the body of a rival’s father and throw it into the sea. And now she wants to become president

Politically they couldn’t be more different. But between them, these two politicians, one GOP, one Green, tell a story about how to confront populism

A booming land of opportunity, of young entrepreneurs and start-ups, is locked in a 50-50 culture war that could see it replace Hungary as the EU’s biggest internal nightmare

The far right populist is likely to be the next president of France. A new book explains why

Crime, corruption and cruelty show how leaders like Trump and Bukele exploit power, and why they must be stopped

As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise?

2025 has been a wild ride, and in these ten articles, writers here at The New World confronted some of the most important questions of the year

We live in a world shaped by banal, slogan-heavy politics, and leaders whose ideas are tilted against the interests of the young. They will leave behind nothing but catastrophe

As visitors soak up high art and cheap beer, a billionaire populist chameleon and his far right outriders cronies are ready to turn the Czech Republic upside down

Two showmen, $40bn and one very fragile economy: what could possibly go wrong?

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

Populists have some very strange ideas about London. The best way to get over their irrational fears is to pay the capital a visit

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters

The triumph of the pro-EU candidate in the Moldovan election is a victory for militant democracy

Andrej Babiš is a fan of the US president, and hates the EU. But if he wins the election, how extreme will he be?

The Lib Dems beat Reform at the election but lost the media war. Now their leader warns that Farage and Robinson seek to tear Britain apart for personal gain

MAGA wants all-out war on the left after the shooting of the right wing commentator, Charlie Kirk. Will Trump oblige?

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

A cross of St George or a union jack flown today means the same as it did in 1977: ‘You’re not welcome here’