Steve Bannon, the strategist and ideologue at the heart of Donald Trump’s administration, has an aggressively reactionary world view that might tell us about its future direction
STEVE BANNON has quickly emerged as the man at the heart of US President Donald Trump’s new administration.
Leading activists says left needs to reclaim the idea of liberty in order to take on a new right
RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CAMPAIGN (RIC) co-founder Jonathon Shafi has warned that the far right is pulling ahead in the race to define the politics of the 21st century.
Audience producer a centre of controversy over Britain First media posts
THE AUDIENCE PRODUCER for the BBC news debate show Question Time has been “reminded” by the BBC of the corporation’s guidelines regarding social media use, after she shared Facebook posts by the far-right group Britain First.
Jo Cox’s killer was only the latest in a long line of far right terrorists in the UK
NEO-NAZI TERRORISM is on the rise across Europe, a tendency underlined in the UK by the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by white supremacist Thomas Mair in June.
Alyn Smith expressed worries that politicians will continue to “pander” to the growing far right
ALYN SMITH MEP has said that the BBC and wider media’s coverage of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU had a negative impact on how the European Union (EU) was seen.
Leigh Wilson says it isn't surprising that people are flocking to far right movements, but argues that there is another way
AFTER the initial pangs of angst following the Brexit vote last month, I think it is important to pause for thought and see the wider picture of where Scotland is socially and globally at the moment.
Hard left and right candidates rival centrist Macron as first round approaches
THERE IS THOUGHT to be the slimmest of margins in support between four radically ideologically different candidates heading into the first round of the French elections on Sunday 23 April.
For several months Emmanuel Macron, a centrist pro-EU former Economy minister was ahead of Marine Le Pen of the far-right Front national.
Controversial speaker and writer faces backlash by Glasgow students and feminist activists after being nominated for university’s rectorship
“AN EMBARRASSMENT”, is how feminists and academics have described the nomination of Milo Yiannopoulos for the position of rector of the University of Glasgow (UoG).
The prominent “alt-right” speaker, who targets women, Muslims, immigrants and members of the LGBT+ community in his speeches is one of 12 names put forward by students to represent them on the university’s governing body.
Alleged terrorist Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, supports far-right movements
THE MAN CHARGED WITH MASSACRING six people and five further counts of attempted murder at a Quebec mosque in Canada is a supporter of far-right movements and the politics of new US President Donald Trump, according to classmates and activists who knew him.
Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, is charged with the shooting that occurred on Sunday 29 January - in a terrorist attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City.
