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Owens reaches million of people online and wants to do five shows across Australia, but there are calls to deny her entry. Here’s what the federal government has to consider.
Talking through the potential consequences is key.
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Asking a series of simple questions can help create space for dialogue and pull someone out of a misinformation bubble.
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Calling these acts of fascist violence terrorism may feel cathartic, but it’s not that simple.
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There is a corner of the internet that preaches male violence as a response to male violence.
Police and far right rioters clashed at the Holiday Inn in Rotherham.
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Doctors have found high levels of gastrointestinal problems and suicidal thoughts among asylum seekers living in hotels and former army barracks.
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Instead of focusing on the people sending out the propaganda, we should turn our attention to those who receive it.
People gather in Paris after the second round of the legislative election on July 7, 2024. A leftist coalition that came together to keep the far right from power won the most parliamentary seats in runoff elections amid a high voter turnout.
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If political parties respect voters and focus on policy rather than polls and partisan hackery, Canadians might have something substantive to choose from when the next federal election is called.
Almost 30% of voters chose the Rassemblement National in the first round of early legislative elections on 30 June 2024. Here, in Pau.
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After President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly, the first round of the snap legislative elections took place on June 30. Historian Mathias Bernard analyses what’s at stake.
England player Bukayo Saka was subjected to horrendous racist abuse after missing a penalty in the Euro 2020 final against Italy.
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The abuse heaped on players in high-profile matches is just the tip of the iceberg – a culture of online abuse permeates football at all levels.
Protests against the far right AfD in Germany.
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Our fast-track society has made voters impatient – the far right promises fast-track, simplistic solutions to complex problems.
Nigel Farage in one of his 10 appearances on Question Time in the last decade.
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The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
Emmanuel Macron calls for snap elections at a presidential address on 6 June 2024.
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Julien Robin, a specialist in French parliamentary life, looks at what the surprise dissolution means for French politics.
Marine Le Pen delivers a speech next to National Rally president Jordan Bardella after the first results of the European elections.
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Enviroment policies and executive roles now in the spotlight – while France faces a potentially divisive national election.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a break in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York.
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The intersectionality of hate, which combines racism, antisemitism and misogyny, leads the white heterosexual male to believe that he is a victim of the “minorities” he must resist.
Qualipu Mi’kmaw scholar Christopher Crocker has examined how fascination with Norse contact dominates Newfoundland tourism at the expense of pre-colonial Indigenous studies and representation. L’Anse-Aux-Meadow National Historic Site in northern Newfoundland.
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Indigenous and critical race approaches to narratives of the Middle Ages help reveal more accurate histories, and combat the misuses of ‘the medieval’ for hate.
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The far-right Alternative for Germany is courting the youth vote on TikTok with great success, ahead of the elections in June.
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Though it seemed like music for the inner cities, 2-Tone sought to take its message of inclusion to young people in less racially mixed small towns and rural areas too.
Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party, speaks during the National Conservatism conference in Brussels on April 16, 2024.
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Trying to silence the radical right isn’t the way forward. Not only is it likely to backfire, it will probably galvanize the movement’s leaders.
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New definitions don’t protect communities or deter extremists.
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Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.