There is a debate about whether the BNP are left wing or right wing. I think it’s a sterile and pointless debate and don’t like the terms left and right anyway (and certainly don’t think that it makes sense to see the BNP as an extrapolation of ‘the left’ or ‘the right’).
Nevertheless, people generally understand [...]

The latest growth figures from the USA tell us that it is out of recession; why, then, is the UK the only major economy still in recession?
Firstly, although the USA is out of technical recession, I don’t think anyone would describe its economy as healthy. Recovering, perhaps, but not healthy, and the same goes for [...]

There’s a storm brewing over the political positions of Michal Kaminski, particularly regarding his relations to the National Revival of Poland, aka NOP, and the Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne.
The NOP is now regarded by just about everyone as a nasty bunch of anti-Semites (their manifesto includes a line from Mein [...]

I am very proud of some of the things I achieved while active in the LSE Students’ Union. A little while ago, I was contacted by LSESU asking if, as part of the redecoration of the bar, they could have a silhouette of me and a quote to go on the wall. I duly obliged; [...]

The Pennsylvania Republican party have run an advert where the ‘O’ of Obama’s surname is replaced with a hammer and sickle in a circle. Just for the avoidance of doubt, I thought I’d do a little list of ways in which Barack Obama is different from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Ran a [...]

My friend James Higham – learned counsel for the other side – has replied at length to the video I posted of Philip Spooner saying, in answer to whether he was supportive of gay rights, ‘what do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?‘, saying “Marriage is the union of two people for the [...]

Hello from Skopje. #
Hello from Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia. #
RT @uaf The Guardian's online poll asks if the BBC is right to host the BNP on Question Time – please vote no! http://bit.ly/1c2orS #
Can someone explain to me why CNN is running the balloon boy story on its 'International Desk' programme? #fail [...]

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