Populism

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’

Fuelled by the far right and the media and endorsed by other politicians who should know better, Islamophobia is becoming a new national pastime

With the government’s failing economic policies and rampant corruption, Magyar’s ascent is accelerating each day Orbán spends in office

The hard right rabble-rouser is reported to have left the country after police indicated they wanted to question him over an alleged assault

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth

In a draining digital age of new problems and new tech, the planet’s most powerful leaders are all in their 70s – and increasingly at war with reality

The country’s new-found peace feels fragile once again after the attempted assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay

Far right nationalistic beliefs are now run-of-the-mill daily rhetoric in US public life

Labour has been dragged towards the Reform Party, mainly because of the debate over immigration. That has to stop. Here’s how

Hard right populists can get thrown out of power – just look at the Netherlands

Both Europe and America are being forced to face the populist right and they aren’t going to vanish all by themselves

Yet another had right opportunist has exploited the opening in European politics that the left continues to ignore

Don't discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year

Milei's press clampdowns are attracting international coverage. But that isn't stopping him, if anything the president is doubling down

From El Salvador to Greater Lincolnshire via the White House, populists want to sweep aside the criminal justice system as we know it

One minute he was the king of cosy Sunday night TV, the next he was on GB News ranting about Covid-creating elites and turbo cancer. What went wrong?

Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?

Ever since his exile in 2019, Evo Morales has been lining up a return to power and now he's summoned his supporters

The petulant far right billionaire rips up jobs, risks lives, makes Nazi salutes and taunts anyone who disagrees – then complains

The far right leader demanded French courts get tough on corrupt politicians. Now she is paying the price

Her political ban might boost the National Rally - but equally, it could now crumble. So let’s celebrate

The city’s referendum gives Parisians the chance to have their say. Should Britain do the same?

The shocking treatment of US deportees to El Salvador is just one attraction in Trump’s theme park of brutality. But why do so many Americans seem keen to buy a ticket?

Reform has thrown out MP Rupert Lowe, again raising the question of whether the British hard right is inevitably destined to tear itself apart