Democracy

We need to talk about a Far Right EU. Nativists and ultraconservatives are being actively courted by the European mainstream including at the level of the EU. There's the advent of prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with her party's roots in Italian f...

Hans Kundnani | Mehreen Khan | Treaty of Rome | József Böröcz | 1989 | Robert Schuman | Algeria | Frits Bolkestein | Charlemagne | Charles Michel | Charles Martel | Coudenhove-Kalergi | Srebrenica | Eurafrica

Conservatives and the far right | Spain and Vox | Daniel Ziblatt | Christian Democrats | US Republicans | How Democracies Die | Thuringia | Gatekeepers | Macron's balancing act | Climate and Covid-19 | Trumpism's future and Europe

Trolling | Spyware | Dorota Bawołek | Stacja Bruksela | Donald Tusk | Smolensk | Shooting targets | TVP | Midday briefing in Brussels | Brexit and Polexit | SLAPPs | European Media Freedom Act | European Broadcasting Union

Philippe Lamberts | Genesis | Macron mountaineer | Green neocons | Bankers and bonuses | Big up for Ursula | Nuclear | Green authoritarianism | Carbon imperialism | 2024 | #GrowthKills at the Brussels Economic Forum

Thomas Davies | NGOs through history | Young Europe | League of Nations | Cold War | Anti-globalisation | Viktor Orbán | Carlotta Besozzi | Věra Jourová | Foreign agents laws | Loyalty tests | MEPs and Islamophobia | Femyso

Qatargate | Socialists at the European Parliament | Lara Wolters | Manon Aubry | Gaslighting | Vindication | Jail and compassion | Truth to power | Due diligence | Malaysia | Bahrain | Philippines | Boskalis | Conservatives bullying NGOs

David Rowe | A flying bullet | Ariana Reines | Raimundas Malasauskas | Ukraine's sacrifice | Leopards | Liberal Democracy | Violence | Immanual Kant | Robert Kagan | 2024 | Mars & Venus | Nationalist democracy | Long vs short war | EU accession

Qatar scandal | Blame game | Alberto Alemanno | Foreign interference | NGOs | Bad apples | Roberta Metsola | Ursula von der Leyen | Independent oversight of ethics | Party hacks | Quantum leap

Rana Ayyub | Yoga | Incredible India | Online violence | Hindu Nationalism | RSS | Narendra Modi | The Gujarat Violence | Nero | Von der Leyen | Bezos in India | Russia | Wilful indifference | Agnes Jongerius | Labour standards | Visas | Promises,...

Josep Borrell and the jungle | Dylan Mathews | Shada Islam | EU indifference | Ukraine | Double standards | Degan Ali | Pakistan | Climate reparations | Robtel Pailey | The white gaze of development | Building resilience | Power | Fear about funding

Praising Mussolini | Lauding Putin | Russian influence | Airbrushing Meloni | European Conservatives and Reformists | Trumpists | Berlusconi's heritage | Vox and ultraconservatives | The Fiamme Tricolore | Deviance | Ethnic substitution | Eroding ...

Stereotypes | Invisible minority | Little banana | Kiffe Ta Race | Waiting for Europe | Brice Hortefeux | Mixed couples | Attacks on Asians after Covid | Importing wokism | Pap Ndiaye | Meritocracy

Backsliding on abortion | Bianca’s story | Religion and medicine in Romania | Ultraconservatives and Austrian democracy | Croatian hospitals | Waiting periods in Germany | Criminalisation persists | Helena Dalli on equal protection | Macron and th...

Europeans howl about U.S. backsliding on abortion rights but they don't exactly have their own house in order. Take the case of Bianca. She's a Romanian. She was studying medicine in Germany. And she discovered she was pregnant in Korea. Bianca ev...

Sahar Aziz | Shada Islam | Brussels So White | Islamophobia phobia | Anti-Muslim Hatred | Impact of 9/11 | Collective guilt | Bloodlines in Europe | Colonial legacies | Whiteness over time

Emmanuel Macron | Guy Lagache | Engagement and appeasement | Putin and ice hockey | Ukraine and Nato | All is not lost | Putin's lies | WWI | Boris Johnson | Les Anglo-Saxons | Oil and gas | Marie-Antoinette

Rafia Zakaria | Shada Islam | Brussels So White | Embryonic EU antiracism | Let women wear what they want | Sneering Europe | Ukraine and the civilisational discourse | White saviours | Melinda French Gates

Far-right conferencing and Putin | CPAC in Budapest | NatCon in Brussels | Ultraconservative poster boy Viktor Orbán | LGBTQ+ bashing | Race | Be the victim | Tailor your theory | Common cause with Ukraine against Europe

Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has threatened to be a public relations disaster for hard-right gatherings like CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Previous editions featured Putin supporters — and a CPAC meeting getting underway i...

Weapons and helmets | Army or militia | Lying to friends and family | War and sobriety | Trumpists and anti-vaxxers | Filtering Russian spies | Bags on heads in the basement | Praying with guns | Under fire in Kyiv | Drones and trenches

Georgian Legion | Kalashnikovs at the gym | Snoring soldiers | Coloured tape | Fighting for values | Field medic | "I think I'm ready" | "Ready for the worst" | Lviv vs Kyiv | Families underground | Bunkers

When Thomas left Brussels for Ukraine to train as a foreign fighter, he joined up with the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary group that's fought for years to stop Russian aggression. In this episode Thomas and his unit arrive in Kyiv, as part of eff...

Into Ukraine | Leaving family | Boots and a Kalashnikov | Air raids and sleeplessness | The unit gets a nurse | Night patrol | Urban fortifications | Thermal imaging | Donated drones

White fear | Postponed migration promises | Macron's civilisational trope | Michel's clumsy counting | Vaccine ideology | A guinea pig for clean energy | Carbon shocks | Debt solutions | Europe vs China | Lethal aid | Wagner Group | Brexit and the...