Posts under ‘The far right’

A couple of links

For twitterers: There’s a science to getting retweeted, you know? Trying to explain something? No need to reinvent the wheel. A bit of politics to spice up the end of a hot week: Are social liberals so open-minded about the BNP that their brains have fallen out? (I’m guessing you’ve heard the ‘British Eggs for [...]

Is the decline of conversational local democracy really a big problem?

Here’s former New Statesman & Society editor Stuart Weir (now with Democratic Audit) on the dangers that arise as a result of the BNP being allowed a toehold in local politics. “Wilks-Heeg analyses electoral data research findings from Burnley to argue convincingly that the BNP’s breakthrough constitutes a stark warning about the “advanced state of [...]

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