Better late than never. But it should have happened a long time ago. In the first of a three-part series for Left To Burn on the EU and the Gaza War, Battleground Editor-in-Chief Joel Schalit speaks with Brussels journalist William Noah Glucroft about a rise in European efforts to contain the conflict and whether Europe has what it takes to bring the war to a close. Unsurprisingly, Germany plays a starring role.

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British populists are divided over a feud between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and MP Rupert Lowe. Farage has had Lowe suspended for criticising his leadership. But Lowe isn’t just any MP. Elon Musk backed him as an alternative leader to Farage in January. Lowe built his reputation hyping Muslim rape gangs and promoting the mass deportation of migrants. In this episode of Left To Burn, Josh White dissects the split. The crisis could determine the future of the UK right.

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In the second of a four-part series about Wieland Hoban's brand new Battleground book, German Apartheid Politics: Memory, Democracy and Genocide, Editor-in-Chief Joel Schalit and the author discuss Germany's much-criticised Antisemitism commissioners, and how they fit into an increasingly racist, religious and political environment in which Antisemitism gets practised in new and unrecognised ways.

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Twenty-five years into the new century, Britain is more broken than ever, with the far right on the rise.

The Tories have failed, and Labour is failing. The old consensus has collapsed, yet Keir Starmer still leads it.

Meanwhile, all the energy is with Reform UK and its charismatic leader Nigel Farage.

In this episode of Left To Burn, Josh White starts a new series on the politics behind this regression.

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They love us too much and want every minority to do the same. The question is why. Wieland Hoban and Joel Schalit, with the first of four conversations about Hoban’s new Battleground book, German Apartheid Politics: Memory, Democracy and Genocide.

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The good news is that the election is over: the UK is set to have its first Labour government in fourteen years. However, the Conservative Party has not suffered the annihilation pundits predicted. The election result may be a stonking majority for Keir Starmer, but millions of voters stayed at home. Meanwhile, independents and small parties did far better than expected. In the most dramatic case, Reform UK bulldozed its way into Parliament through once-safe Tory seats.  Whatever happens next, the new normal will not be stability and growth. Josh White, on the 2024 poll.

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It's the last week of the UK election, and Labour will most certainly win. However, British democracy is in crisis, and the party lacks a grand vision for change. What could this mean for the country? If Keir Starmer fails to deliver, the UK could see the far-right Nigel Farage in power in 2029. Josh White, on his fears for the future.

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Nigel Farage has broken through TikTok, reaching thousands of young voters. Reform UK offers them easy answers about the economic and social malaise they’re facing in a post-industrial society with no community and no hope. There is now a campaign to establish a Reform UK Youth wing, what we might call the Farage Youth. The backers are Identitarian Zoomers who want to return to a monocultural Britain. Josh White, on Nigel Farage’s election push and how it’s radicalising the British right.

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By Left To Burn

Britain looks like it's on the brink of a new era: the end of Tory misrule, a new Labour government and an emboldened far-right party. Nigel Farage is indeed back and campaigning to make this an immigration election. While Labour is set to win, Farage will be waiting in the wings with his eye on 2029. Josh White, on why the UK’s 4 July election might just be the dress rehearsal for the Reform Party.

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By Left To Burn

Prime Minister Nigel Farage. It’d be a nightmare come true. Given the ideological influence he’s had over the last decade, it’s never been out of the question. Considering what failures Tory premiers have been, Farage might just be the strong leader the British right has been looking for. Josh White, on the Brexit architect’s candidacy in the UK election and what it portends for a Labour government. 

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