Tag: populists
Rise of the far right: will there be an election bonanza for Europe’s populists?
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For a brief moment, it looked like the longstanding love affair between most of Europe’s rightwing, nationalist, anti-immigration and EU-critical politicians with Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin would prove a fatal mistake. ...
Japan election: rightwing populists sweep vote in Osaka
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On a night when an expected challenge by the main opposition party quickly fizzled out, candidates from a tiny local party seized one seat after another in Japan’s general election, turning an economically vital regio...
Paul Mason: ‘Modern fascism’s interests are being represented in government by rightwing populists’
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Paul Mason was born in Lancashire in 1960, the son of a headmistress and a lorry driver. He started his career as a music teacher before becoming a journalist in the early 90s. He joined BBC’s Newsnight as a business ...