LEO BOIX recommends a ravishing, full-bodied drama about the intensely demanding and emotional art of Kabuki theatre
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The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde
The poison that's infected the mainstream of the body politic
On the day of the election, MARTIN GOLLAN reflects on the perennial relationship between the far-right and the back-hander
MARY CONWAY is gripped by the powerful emotional journeys portrayed by the parents of the perpetrator and victims of a mass shooting
LEO BOIX reviews a novel where shadows deceive and mortality looms, and a poetry collection that refuses to dim
ROBIN STYLES welcomes a boundary pushing work of fiction exploring the life and ideas of the godmother of modernism
PAUL DONOVAN recommends an energetic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, that emphasises how psychiatry is a tool in the hands of a racist agenda
DUTCH academic Cas Mudde began researching the far right in the 1980s when, he notes, “neo-nazi groups could barely protest in the streets without being arrested and anti-immigration parties barely registered in the polls.”
But fast-forward to today and three of the world’s five most populous countries are run by a far-right leaders in India, Brazil and the US. Radical-right parties are part of coalition governments in four European countries — Austria, Bulgaria, Italy and Slovakia — and fully in control in Poland and Hungary, while two more are propped up by radical right parties in Denmark and Britain.
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