"Who’s in, who's out?" asks Shakespeare. At the Spectator, Michael Gove is in and Fraser Nelson is out. Both say the magazine should prize style over viewpoint. But is this really right, asks Prof James Alexander.
Have we "lurched to the Right" or "gone down the rabbit hole"? Mainstream media is full of unflattering descriptions of dissent from Establishment orthodoxy, says Prof James Alexander, and they're rarely helpful.
The Austrian Freedom Party’s victory in this week's election is a harbinger of the death throes of European centrism, says Ralph Schoellhammer – and opposition to mass immigration and Covid lockdowns were key drivers.
Anti-immigration campaigner Tommy Robinson is labelled "far-Right" by the media, but he calls himself a "centrist". Should we believe him, asks Professor James Alexander.
Political chaos is emerging in eastern Germany as the anti-immigration AfD wins an election but the other parties refuse to work with it, says Eugyppius.
Journalists like Paul Mason who argue GB News is "far Right" and must be shut down have clearly never watched it, says Andrew Doyle. If they had they'd know that their idea bear zero relationship to the reality.
Here's something the BBC won't tell you: Marine Le Pen's National Rally was the only party to increase its vote share in the second round of the French election, says Nick Rendell.
Le Pen's National Rally won the popular vote in the French election with 37% – higher than the 34% that gave Keir Starmer his UK landslide. But the party came third thanks to being shunned by the Right-wing Republicans.
Joanna Gray offers a spirited take on current affairs, finding reasons to be cheerful amidst political failures, media influence and even culinary comforts.
One of Germany's largest political parties, Alternative for Germany, has been debanked by a major banking chain following a campaign by activist group Grandmothers Against the Right.
