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Summer of Centrist Doom - by Eoin Higgins
16+ hour, 1+ min ago (341+ words) Welcome to The Flashpoint. Back in the saddle! Thanks for sticking around. I’m going to have this out weekly on Sundays going forward. Stay tuned! I haven’t written since July, when Graham Platner’s campaign imploded. That’s not why I stopped…...
Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanising British politics
14+ hour, 38+ min ago (561+ words) unherd.com Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanizing British politics Has Kemi Badenoch found Labour’s Achilles’ heel? For all the failings of modern British politics, one virtue has largely remained: big money plays little role in deciding our elections. We…...
Germany, Sweden and Malaysia: When the political centre begins to tilt right???? Phar Kim Beng
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (962+ words) SEPT 12 — The rise of the far right in Germany and Sweden cannot simply be explained as a sudden outbreak of xenophobia. Nor should it be reduced to Vladimir Putin, the war in Ukraine or some mysterious resurgence of European nationalism....
Conservative candidate who ran against Carney in last election, eyeing Carleton, Ont., for next one
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1025+ words) A Conservative Party candidate who ran against Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa’s Nepean riding in last year’s general election says she’s considering running in Pierre Poilievre’s former Carleton seat in the next election. Barbara Bal told The Hill Times…...
The £72m question: do big donors influence policies?
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (48+ words) The Times The £72m question: do big donors influence policies? Huge crypto donations to Reform UK reopen the debate on money in British politics £1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Ends soon. Enjoy unlimited digital access....
Canadian Dispatch: Trump is front and centre in Quebec election
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (816+ words) Here's the scenario: A governing party saddled with a terminally unpopular leader faces annihilation in the next election. Along comes a relatively unknown fresh face ready and qualified to lead that party and do battle against a handy villain — Donald…...
9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (258+ words) The ‘War on Terror’ gave far-right Islamophobia legitimacy, reach and electoral force. Before September 11, far right parties in Europe had been largely marginalised within the continent’s multi-party systems. Even where some won significant electoral support, many remained politically stigmatised or…...
Trump on 9/11 reposts video of him asking January 6 rioters to go home
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (252+ words) After spending the morning at the Pentagon to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, President Donald Trump apparently had another attack on his mind in the afternoon — posting the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home…...
Edel McGinley: The far-right do not need to win an election to influence politics
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1034+ words) People protest during a rally called by Campact and Fridays for Future named 'Time to Act: Stop the AfD!' in Berlin. Picture John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images The gains made by Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party should…...
The resistible rise of a fascist party in Germany
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (877+ words) Upon learning of the landslide electoral triumph of a fascist political party in a province that was once part of socialist Germany, these foreboding words immediately came to mind: “The womb is fertile still from which that crawled.” It is…...