#far-right-politics

#far-right-politics

Nigel Farage portrays his Reform UK party as a unique phenomenon that has burst on to the global stage, its meteoric rise an exceptional epochal event. But this week, in every one of Europe's major countries and from India and Thailand to the US and Argentina, hard-right, anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties like his are also ahead in the opinion polls. In last Saturday's Czech elections, the rightwing, pro-Putin populist Andrej Babis toppled prime minister Petr Fiala.

According to recent polls, almost 40% of Spanish men aged between 18 and 34 say that they plan to vote for Vox, the far-right party. Vox won its first seat in the Spanish parliament in 2019 and now it is surging again. Its recent success is no longer a story of just male voters, either: 20% of young women say they would vote for Vox, with the biggest increase among the youngest voters in that group.

The US president and the first lady, Melania Trump, touched down on Tuesday evening at London Stansted onboard Air Force One ahead of a series of events over the next two days, including being hosted by King Charles, military parades and a possible flypast by the Red Arrows alongside British and American F-35 jets. It comes amid criticism in the UK of Trump's policies and rhetoric, with the Stop Trump Coalition gathering for a protest in Windsor

If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.

Polanski told the Guardian he was alarmed at the polling success for Reform UK, a party he described as on the far right, or at least far right-adjacent in terms of the causes and issues they're willing to align with. He condemned Labour and Keir Starmer for failing to properly challenge Reform's rhetoric over proposed mass deportations, saying that mainstream parties were failing to step up to the challenge of pushing back against Farage's ideas.

Bezalel Smotrich announced his intention to approve tenders to build more than 3,000 homes in the E1 area settlement project that would connect Jerusalem and the existing Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.

California Governor Gavin Newsom aligned his views with far-right rhetoric, questioning participation of trans athletes in women's sports and supporting anti-trans narratives on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast.

Denying the fact that gas chambers existed is not only a manifestation of anti-Semitism and an ideology of hatred; in Poland it is also a crime.

My YouTube channel has half a million subscribers, and my interview with Weidel has been viewed over a million times. I support her stance against media pressure.

"Thank you, Mexico!" Applause erupted from the crowd as Ronald Johnson took to the floor, greeted warmly by mariachis and marked a stark contrast from his predecessor.

At an Alternative fur Deutschland conference in January, just weeks before the party doubled its vote share to become the second-biggest force in parliament, its co-leader Alice Weidel promised to tear them all down if the AfD came to power.

"As far-right and nationalist parties steadily gain political ground, analysts say that citizenship is increasingly being linked to crime, giving rise to a shift that risks creating two classes of citizens and marginalising specific communities."

We have promised the Israeli people that at the end of the war, Gaza will no longer be a threat to Israel, suggesting an ever-pressing ambition to diminish Hamas's influence.