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Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

In case you missed this: the well-known right-wing extremist 'Tommy #Robinson', who has several convictions to his real name (Stephen Yaxley Lennon), says at the start of a new trial that Elon #Musk is paying his legal bills. Wouldn't be a huge surprise if true 1/2

YouTube video by The Daily Show Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

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Portugals Konservative gegen Migration Durch Gesetze will die Minderheitsregierung Einwanderung stark einschränken und baut dabei auf die Unterstützung der rechtspopulistischen Chega!.

for German speakers

www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

Les Identitaires’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System In 2015, the Common European Asylum System and the Schengen regime were placed under unparalleled strain by the mass arrival of 1.2 million asylum seekers. This event was followed by the failure of...

out in paper article on the French far right impact on immigration under President Hollande with important revision of its definition: the presence of a far right party is not a necessary condition, as President Trump demonstrates...

50 free copies available at: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VUTWD...

Netanyahu is allowing children in Gaza to die of starvation, Cooper says The foreign secretary also warned the prospect of a two-state solution may ‘disappear beneath the rubble’

they say: its never too late... to call a spade a spade...

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour must rethink growth strategy to curb rise of far right, says top economist Former Bank chief economist Andy Haldane says left-behind communities need investment to stem populist tide

a kind of universal trend in a world of growing inequality:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No one normalizes the Trump administration’s authoritarianism like the New York Times.

when France is led by a president unwilling to recognize democratic results of the 2024 snap general election, when the American president fires a director because he dislikes the national statistics, I wonder: who is going to stop this genocide?

Peak New York Times!

Prominent interview with marginal neo-Nazi, full of glossy pictures and euphemisms, which normalize the dominant far right (“conservatives”).

Child obesity level surpasses underweight cases worldwide for the first time, UNICEF warns For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents worldwide, UNICEF revealed in a new report on T...

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The British Political-Media Class’s Mainstreaming of the Populist Radical-Right Julian Petley explores how hard-right views have increasingly been normalised as the ‘common sense’ of the more mainstream right

An increasingly global problem…

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Article: Why Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle campaign is part of a wider cultural backlash (Meaghan Furlano) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Meaghan Furlano explores recent campaign by American Eagle with Sydney Sweeney

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'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon? Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Sign the Petition STOP THE SILENCE! Academic Associations Must Recognise the Genocide in Gaza

a drop in the ocean, but how can academics stay silent in face of current man made famine in gaza

www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

No words 💔

UK opinion on Gaza war (YouGov, July 2025)

18% support Israel’s actions in Gaza, 55% oppose
81% of those who oppose say it’s a genocide

Large margins in favour of:
- trade embargoes (48% to 20%)
- financial sanctions on individuals (52% to 19%)
- suspending arms exports to Israel (57% to 18%)

Why we need to halt ‘hard right’ in its tracks Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues Tim Bale, it’s a misdescr...

theloop.ecpr.eu/why-we-need-...

Marcelo “perplexo” com números do governo sobre imigração, quando comparados com os do INE. Daniel Oliveira analisa opção do Executivo - Expresso da Manhã Daniel Oliveira, comentador da SIC e colunista do Expresso, diz que o Governo está a esconder debilidades em áreas que são prioritárias para os portugueses

classic handbook of increasing salience of immigration in national politics and to boost the far right!
government's numbers of immigration have more 500,000 individuals than the figure provided by the national statistics institute according to the President of the Republic omny.fm/shows/expres...

I am gripped by horror as US democracy disappears over a political cliff Trump and his followers are battering long-established American institutions into submission

hummm...

inews.co.uk/opinion/grip...

Nos últimos 25 anos, a criminalidade desceu. Mas crimes nas capas de jornais duplicaram Amplificação mediática dos fenómenos criminais alimenta o sentimento de insegurança que não corresponde à realidade da criminalidade em Portugal, aponta o Observatório de Segurança e Defesa da SEDES.

a worlwide trend in the media: "in 25 years, the criminality dropped in Portugal, but front page news about crime doubled in number!".
this is how you steer public perceptions...
www.publico.pt/2025/07/14/s...

A year after the 2024 election, which voters have abandoned the Conservative party and why? | YouGov Two thirds of Conservative to Reform UK defectors could be open to returning to the party

the consequences of centre-right parties accomodation of PRRP is evident in the UK, as the ideological frontiers of the electorates of the two camps vanish...
A Déjà vu of French politics in the mid-2010s… analysed and printed in government and opposition in 2017

Elon Musk’s latest Trump spat could end the Maga saga for good If the ‘trainwreck’ Tesla boss goes through with launching the America Party – bankrolling a new presidential candidate with his almost limitless wealth – it would do more than just derail Trump’s sec...

good news?! or milliards democracy?!

www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk

ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.

And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.

This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.

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See @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social's latest on a 2% levy.

Reform would win most seats if general election took place now, new poll reveals No party would win an overall majority, but a YouGov poll suggests Nigel Farage would have the most seats by far

long term effects of accomodating the far right... and the lack of polarization...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A política de imigração portuguesa: da teoria à prática - NOVA FCSH ensino a distância

recomendo bastante: www.fcsh.unl.pt/outros-curso...

mais vale aprender sobre um fénomeno social de elevada complexidade que reproduzir estereotipos e fake news

Inquérito: Declarações de André Ventura sobre ciganos recebem concordância Num inquérito realizado pela Aximage, a maioria das pessoas inquiridas diz concordar com as declarações do candidato do PSD a Loures sobre os ciganos. Uma maioria que abrange todos os partidos polític...

dados sobre ciganofobia em Portugal em 2017... uma clivagem transversal á sociedade portuguesa, capitalizada pela extrema direita...
já se sabe, é tudo culpa da imigração...