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The Conservatives: a ‘polite alternative’ to the BNP?
In an insightful piece in this blog, Matthew Goodwin reported on his research about the UKIP and the BNP, portraying the former as a ‘polite alternative’ to the latter or the ‘BNP in Blazers’. Its...
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Extremism: what we can learn from Sweden
I’m writing this on my return flight from Stockholm, where we held the last workshop in our Chatham House project on Understanding and Dealing with the Spread of Populist Extremism. The project...
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Far Right Violence: What Do We Know?
In the aftermath of the attacks by a supposed ‘lone wolf’ in Norway, the discovery of a violent neo-Nazi cell in Germany and the murder of two Senegalese street traders in Florence, there has...
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The Far Right and Violence: An Exploration
Today, Dr Matthew Goodwin has launched a new exploratory study of views among far right supporters toward violence. The study draws on a sample of 2,152 BNP, EDL and UKIP supporters, and for the first...
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Economic crisis = Extremism, right?
With the Eurozone crisis remaining in full-swing, many politicians and commentators have identified the economic downtown as the main driver of rising public support for extreme right-wing parties,...
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What happened to the BNP?
The British political arena has long been an inhospitable place for minor parties. While UKIP is the latest to turn heads, from one election to the next history is littered with failed contenders. Back...
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