Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) never won an election or parliamentary seat and, from its foundation in 1932 to its proscription in 1940, struggled to break into the political mainstream. Though in
A number of columnists and commentators have pointed to something disturbingly imperial in some of the arguments in favour of Brexit. Few, however, have looked to the academic study of British national identity or imperial
On 29 November 2017, Donald Trump retweeted a video shared on Twitter by one of the leaders of Britain First, purporting to show a ‘Muslim migrant’ beating up a ‘Dutch boy’. This was later reported
Fake news is a feature of the ‘post-truth’ world, which we are supposed to have entered some time last year between the EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United
Recently I was lucky enough to interview two of the few remaining ‘veterans’ of the 'Battle' that took place on Cable Street eighty years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, when Jewish and Irish residents,
Over the last four years the right-leaning papers have exhausted themselves with every attempt to emasculate, embarrass and smear the (now former) leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband. These attacks only intensified as the