far-right

Don’t fear the bogeyman

1 November 2025 9:00 am

Britain is beset by a bogeyman. A giant, mystical beast that the public are forever being threatened with. Remember last…

Why did neo-Nazis patrol the German border?

30 October 2021 11:00 am

Just after midnight last Sunday, around 50 vigilantes gathered in east Germany to ‘patrol’ the country’s border with Poland. They…

The manhunt dividing Belgium

12 June 2021 4:01 pm

Belgium’s leading virologist is in hiding, holed up with his family in a government safe house. The reason? A right-wing…

Why the far-right flourishes in East Germany

6 June 2021 4:01 pm

A spectre is haunting Germany — the spectre of the AfD. Having come to prominence on a wave of anti-migrant…

Germany’s growing extremism problem

19 May 2021 4:01 pm

On 2 June 2019, a German politician was found lying in a pool of blood outside his home in Hesse.…

How I know the Conservative party is doomed

6 April 2019 9:00 am

Gosh, it’s depressing watching the natural party of government committing slow-motion suicide. It’s depressing even if you’re not, as I…

Poles apart

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Poland is furiously divided – but it’s not in the grip of ‘hyper-nationalism’

Why I left

19 September 2015 8:00 am

I cannot be part of a movement run by half-educated fanatics

Ukip’s new recruits

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Just three months into Ukip’s shock victory as the party of government and already Nigel Farage’s mob are starting to…

Hug a hoodie?

15 November 2014 9:00 am

The Ku Klux Klan is trying to rebrand

What you can’t say about anti-Semitic attacks

16 August 2014 9:00 am

I was attacked by a swan the other day, as I walked along the bank of the River Stour in…

Extreme measures

19 October 2013 9:00 am

An encounter with Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League