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Opinion: Sweden Was Never the Progressive Haven You Thought It Was

by Christian Christensen

The victory of the far-right Sweden Democrats has shocked the world. That’ll teach us for believing the hype about Scandi liberalism, writes Christian Christensen.

Feature: In South Africa, a Failed State Has Turned on Migrants

by Derick Matsengarwodzi

Far-right groups have weaponised South Africa’s extreme inequality in a bid to ‘force out’ migrants. Derick Matsengarwodzi reports from Durban on a frightening new wave of xenophobic violence.

A pedestrian passes an official campaign poster of far-right candidate Eric Zemmour, and the one of Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National) on an electoral billboard (sign). Presidential posters on their electoral boards. Illustration picture on April 5, 2022 in Paris, France. French voters head to the polls to vote on April, 10, 2022 for the first round of the presidential election, to elect their new president of the Republic.

Opinion: Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour Are Basically Tories

by Francesca Humi

Britain’s alarm about the French far right obscures an important fact, writes Francesca Humi: many of Le Pen’s ideas are already a reality in the UK.

The reddened face of Labour leader Keir Starmer

Opinion: In Keir Starmer’s Anti-Racist Universe, Palestinians Don’t Count

by Barnaby Raine

The Labour leader’s anti-Palestinian racism is classic colonialism with a contemporary twist, argues Barnaby Raine.

Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord

by Sandeep Sandhu

Would-be NHS chief Dido Harding's attack on foreign-born health service workers is a tactical and dangerous erasure of British history, ripped straight from the Tory culture war playbook, writes Sandeep Sandhu.

Analysis: The Dutch Left Was Savaged at the Polls – but Its Policies Remain Unscathed

by Merijn Oudenampsen

Wednesday's historic defeat is especially confounding given the popularity of leftwing policies among the electorate, writes Dutch political scientist Merijn Oudenampsen.

Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

by Aurelien Mondon

The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.

Opinion: Paranoid Hysteria is a Near-Constant Feature of Modern Conservatism

The right’s shrill panic about an ‘invasion’ of migrants reached new heights this week over a handful of refugees in barely seaworthy dinghies. In order to understand the forces we’re dealing with, we need to examine this hysteria itself, argues David Wearing.

Live: Why Does Britain Love Racist Toffs?

Turns out a press pack can be pacified with nothing more than a cup of tea. Tonight Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar ask why the establishment get a carte blanche for racism.