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The Guardian’s in-house Brexit apologist
06/12/2023
Why does the newspaper continue to publish Larry Elliot’s Corbynite nonsense on the EU?
Linda Green’s new novel arose from the racial abuse and hatred she observed after the EU referendum. It’s a Romeo and Juliet for our times.
How Brexit helped create the migrant crisis
03/11/2022
The migrant crisis has exposed a common fallacy about Brexit, that you can simply "pull up the drawbridge" and wish it away.
MEPs are set to blast Boris Johnson’s approach on Wednesday. / But the ID group, which represents parties like French National Rally, Italy's Lega, and the German AfD appears to have come to the UK's aid and tried to get the debate postponed.
A new report into Eric Zemmour’s social media in the run-up to the French elections shows how Britain’s Leave campaigns during the EU referendum created a controversial template.
Police raid of Dean Morrice’s home found stockpile of chemicals and cache of terrorism manuals.
Make Britain Great Again: How Ukip tried to ride the Trump wave – and it ended in disaster
15/01/2020
As Ukip welcomes Katie Hopkins as a member, Lizzie Dearden looks at the party’s journey into the far right.
One of the organisations attending today’s march in central London was Fishing for Leave, a group that made headlines during the referendum when they sailed a pro-Brexit flotilla up the Thames. They say they represent fishermen opposed to the EU, but this programme has discovered that one of the main organisers of today’s protest, Aaron Brown, appears to have links to far-right extremists.
Flag-waving extremists and white nationalists block roads in protest over migrant Channel crossings
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters – in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
Brexit party leader has given a number of interviews that draw on far-right conspiracy theories.
Tory links to far-right in spotlight as MP gives thumbs-up to French conspiracy theorists
07/02/2020
Further questions have been raised over Tory links to the European far-right after one of the party's MPs endorsed a conspiracist group on the fringes of French politics.
Britain First urges supporters to join Conservative Party ‘to make Boris Johnson’s leadership more secure’
19/12/2019
Far-right group’s chief of staff is among extremists who claim to have become Tory members.
Brexit party leader gave at least six long interviews to Rick Wiles on the TruNews network.
Boris Johnson's Woes Escalate As Video Emerges Of Steve Bannon Saying He Helped Write Speech
24/06/2019
Johnson denied any links with the far-right US figure last year.
HOPE not hate can reveal that three Brexit Party candidates in Doncaster are active members of the private Facebook group “Doncaster Brexit Party Supporters Group”, in which racist and conspiracy theorist posts, including claims of an Islamic “invasion” and racist abuse aimed at Labour MP Diane Abbott, are prevalent.
Far Right Flock to the Brexit Party
18/10/2019
In the first instalment of a new series, we look at some of the far right support for the Brexit Party, and ask: what it is about Farage’s ventures that seem to attract so many racists?
John Sweeney complains to Ofcom over BBC News failure to broadcast investigations [on far right, Russia and Brexit]
25/11/2019
Former Newsnight journalist John Sweeney has called for Ofcom to carry out an investigation into BBC News over its failure to broadcast reports on the “far-right, Russia and Brexit”.
Brexit party leader tells evangelical Christian TV channel of threat from ‘globalists’ and mass migration.
English Defence League founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon said "everyone should vote for Boris Johnson".
World View: Far-right populists have quietly shelved their EU exit policies amid Brexit.
Historian of fascism offers lessons for democracies on how to resist authoritarianism [10 mins]
09/10/2019
Democracy is a fragile creation, and the Yale professor and historian of fascism Timothy Snyder should know. / His best selling book, ‘On Tyranny’, offers some practical and political advice for resisting authoritarianism. Professor Snyder had the American reader in mind when he wrote it. But can we learn anything from his work?
Boris Johnson’s ‘crass and dangerous’ rhetoric will fuel violence on UK’s streets, warns EU Commissioner
26/09/2019
Brussels unnerved by warlike rhetoric emanating from Westminster.
Tommy Robinson among those celebrating prime minister's comments to 'traitor MPs' amid widespread condemnation.
Counter-terror police vow to thwart rise in violence driven by extreme-right ideologies.