Geert Wilders has toppled the Dutch Government after pulling out of the governing coalition because it would not back his plans for tougher migration rules, triggering a new election in which he hopes to become PM.
As Tommy Robinson emerges with a beard, Prof James Alexander muses on their rise on the Right. If Boris Johnson had not been so insanely clean-shaven, he would surely have stood up like a man to the nonsense of Covid.
Right-wing candidate Karol Nawrocki has won Poland's Presidential election in a tight contest, beating pro-EU Rafal Trzaskowski with 50.89% of the vote in a heavy blow to PM Donald Tusk's liberalising Government.
The spy agency report on the AfD that brands it "confirmed Right-wing extremist" has finally been published in full – and it's so stupid, says Eugyppius, that it has destroyed all momentum for banning the party.
As in Canada, so in Australia, the crushing defeat of the conservative Liberal Party by Labour has been widely blamed on Trump. But in truth, Peter Dutton and his team only have themselves to blame, says Prof James Allan.
Given the choice between two weak tea bags, Australia elected a weak tea bag, says Rebekah Barnett. Liberal leader Peter Dutton even lost his seat, a reflection of his hopeless deficit in personality and policies.
The AfD has been designated as Right-wing extremist by Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, enabling surveillance of the party to be ramped up and paving the way for it to be banned.
As the Australian Right-of-centre Liberal party stares down the barrel of another election defeat, it's further proof, says Professor James Allan, that there are no prizes for conservatives who kowtow to the Left.
In Germany the Left doesn't need to beat Right-wing parties, it can just ban them for supposedly being a bit too much like Hitler. Eugyppius is increasingly convinced the AfD will face a potential ban in the coming months.
Donald Trump has demanded France "free" Marine Le Pen and labelled her ban from running for office over a "bookkeeping error" a "witch hunt" just like he was subjected to.
