02/01/2022 - 12:03am

The rise of Europe’s fake populists Italy's political elite will never cede power

Thomas Fazi

05.10

Is Éric Zemmour the French Trump? The populist provocateur speaks to Les Déplorables

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

22.09

Sweden’s cultural revolution The refugee crisis changed the country, and its politics, forever

Malcom Kyeyune

15.09

What Boris can learn from Barnier Conservatives need to start keeping their promises

Peter Franklin

09.06

Populism isn’t deadly Don't blame excess Covid deaths on politicians you don't like

Niall Ferguson

27.05

Dominic Cummings is writing history His narrative of grotesque incompetence will eventually cut through

Ed West

04.03

How liberal solidarity unravelled Without anything to fight for, politics can easily descend into posturing

Benjamin Teitelbaum

01.03

Why political language matters When politicians talk in abstractions, politics itself begins to lose coherence

Zachary Hardman

24.02

Why populism always fails As Juan Perón's rise and fall showed, regimes dependent on a personality never succeed

Jill Hedges

17.02

Europe is waiting for its Napoleon The instability at the heart of the EU may pave the way for a strongman

Peter Franklin

30.12

Stop bad-mouthing the BBC The War Against the BBC: Like it or not, the majority of Brits trust — and value — Auntie

Sam Leith

16.11

Why we need populism It kicks in when our democracies become too remote and detached from the people

Matthew Goodwin