Those who talk about far Right, hard Right or Right-wing extremism are probably finding a scapegoat for their own systematic internalised fascism, suggests Prof James Alexander.
Is democracy dying? That's what everyone is saying. Killed by populism, apparently. Prof James Alexander suspects the educated classes may not know what they're talking about.
German democracy, which is somehow shaken to its foundations whenever anybody holds a TV debate with the wrong person, is once again on life support after Elon Musk tweeted support for AfD, says Eugyppius.
A fascist has been elected 47th President of the USA. Or so says the Guardian, which assembled a bunch of Left-wing academics to throw around lazy student insults. It just makes them look dumb, says Prof James Alexander.
David Bell says his tribe on the 'progressive Left' abandoned him during Covid as it lurched into authoritarianism. But he moved to Texas and found a new community with those who love freedom.
The British Museum has been accused of celebrating fascist imagery and sexism in a new Roman Army exhibition. KCL's Dr Claire Millington seems to object to portraying history accurately, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
Is France’s most popular news channel, CNews, really a hotbed of Nazis and fascists? That's the message of a cartoon in a TV magazine but it makes no sense and is just the latest effort to censor it, says Robert Kogon.
The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
It is tiring to be accused of being 'far-Right' by people doing the bidding of the corporations and investors who recently made a killing on Covid, says Dr David Bell. What happened to the Left's rage against the machine?
