With Nigel Farage entering the UK election, here are some resources you might want to look at
Free to read piece from Sunday on how the radical right is trying to escape responsiblity for the its disastrous policies.
Screaming, lying and denying, the British right blames everyone but itself for the disaster it has brought on the country
Farage and Trump, goofing around There’s a comforting theory that people change in response to defeat. It’s comforting because it implies that commonsense wins through in the end. Extremists learn from their failures. They accept the need to compromise and settle down to life in a new consensus.
Long interview with Prof Rob Ford of Manchester University on whether Faragists can take over the Tory party
Will the radical right take over the Tories?
Listen to the Lowdown on Apple (see below) Spotify, Android and every other podcast host With the radical right Reform party planning to run candidates in all seats at the next UK election, and Trump’s best British friend, Nigel Farage, hinting he may return to politics to help it, everyone agrees that the Conservatives may face an electoral wipeout. The nerds among you will know about how the first-past-the-post system went haywire in the
And finally here’s a longer read on the decline of sensible centre-right
How reputable Conservatives paved the way for Trump and Brexit
Anne Applebaum at her Polish home The Times has a rather odd piece today about Radek Sikorski, the new Polish foreign minister. Headlined “Why Poland’s new foreign minister reminds people of Boris Johnson,” it points out that Radek, like Johnson and indeed David Cameron, went to Oxford and joined the Bullingdon Club.
If I may end with a hard sell…..
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