Elections and Votes

10+ hour, 54+ min 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…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1012+ words) As the leader of Reform UK, I am delighted and humbled by the extraordinary £36 million donation Christopher Harborne has made to our party. He joins Ben Delo, who has also donated £36 million, in making the largest financial contribution ever seen…...

12+ hour, 43+ min 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…...

17+ hour, 48+ min 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…...

2+ day, 2+ 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1353+ words) WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The sun was setting over the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation, and polls were set to close in an hour for a high-stakes election in Saxony-Anhalt, when the youth choir paused from singing to take a stand....

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (435+ words) Credits: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. This result is also a political setback for Merz’s CDU. The party came in far behind the AfD in a state it had been governing until then. In Berlin, Weidel sought to turn…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (869+ words) Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage’s party came from donors linked to offshore jurisdictions In last week’s Channel 4 News and Verbatim exposé, which filmed senior Reform figures apparently encouraging foreign…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (237+ words) The Free Press Nothing thrills journalists more than throwing around the term far right. In addition, they relish each chance to describe the far right as being “on the march.” That is the gift that headline writers have been granted…...

2+ day, 10+ 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…...