From Brexit to Johnson to Truss to Farage: the British right’s radicalisation spiral

Harder, faster, down, down, deeper and down

I have never seen the UK right look as dangerous as it does today. Like revolutionary movements throughout history, it is caught in a radicalisation spiral.

What is considered lunatic extremism one minute – crashing out of the EU, deporting refugees to Rwanda – is boring the next. Today’s extremists become yesterday’s men as the movement whips itself up …