Populism

There's a thin line between "progressives got a lot wrong" and "the far right are winning because they're right"

Could the sleeping giant of Germany’s silent majority mobilise against the AfD?

We need government to lead, to inspire and to give people hope. Talk in language that ordinary folk use, and actually go and listen and learn

The outlook for Europe appears dangerous. Expanding the single market would change things. But can it be done?

Meta firing its fact-checkers is about more than sucking up to Trump. It kickstarts a global fight over the rules of the internet and free speech

Stop shouting about how appalled we are by Trump and Farage and learn from our mistakes, to build our own disruptive new agenda of change, respect for ordinary people and pride in our country

With his conspiracy theories, pro-Russian propaganda and hatred of migrants, Le Pen inspired a generation of far right leaders across Europe

Surprise political forces were the story of 2016. Now the world knows they are here to stay – and Britain should brace itself

After the crisis of October’s parliamentary elections, president Salome Zourabichvili has been the country’s most prominent voice of dissent

Labour is a swirl of competing interest groups and right now “the Deliverers” are in charge. But will they be able to see off Musk, Reform and the populist right?

Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?

Between the woman in the red jacket and the man in the red jumper, it was the audience who stole the show in the big face-off between Alastair Campbell and Nigel Farage

Across the world, a new coalition is growing – of exhausted people on all sides who are gunning for Scholz, Macron... and Starmer

Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last

A rudderless EU ignored Trump’s threat and is now terrified and alone. It has two choices – go into overdrive or become irrelevant

Now stoking rumours about Keir Starmer’s private life, the right wing activist uses her journalistic platform to push her political agenda

EU institutions have got into the nasty habit of making concessions to populists who have spent their lives railing against Brussels

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

The far right AfD is poised for major wins this weekend’s eastern state elections amid rising discontent

This was supposed to be the year populism triumphed. But a push towards its most extreme followers could be fatal

Since 2017, Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the right) has grown into a national and international force

Young people seem increasingly drawn to extremist politics

The race rioters spring from the same root as the jihadists

GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

Does Belgium’s political limbo and the Netherlands’ far-right surge demonstrate that governments are optional?

Amid faint glimmers of hope, the European elections showed that a politics the world hoped was long gone is back on the march

A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe

While the European Parliament looks set to take a turn towards the right, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the AfD will gain influence

Rassemblement National’s European election candidate Jordan Bardella was humiliated in a TV debate. So why do opinion polls say he won?

The country's political and social hostilities have reached a dangerous moment