The Trump administration is highly critical of Europe in its national security strategy, while barely mentioning the threats posed by rival great powers.

Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found.

Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’ Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the continent to “Europe’s current trajectory”. Billed as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, the US National Security Strategy makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties. Continue reading...

Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaaner minority.

The increasing extremism in British commentary about race

With the creation of Your Party and the Green's soaring popularity, Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right.

History tells us that any deal that doesn’t come with cast-iron security guarantees for Ukraine is not worth the paper it is written on.

Chancellors don’t want to spook investors.

Like many of you, I suspect, I am wrestling with how best to use (and not use) AI in my daily work. Take blogging. If I just generate posts with ChatGPT, people will probably stop reading. That’s cert...

Podcast Episode · Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · 26/11/2025 · 57m

This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Abstract. This book investigates why and how several contemporary populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe adopt the supposedly outdated ma

Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.

The resolution, which includes references to an independent Palestine, was passed by a vote of 13-0 with China and Russia abstaining The UN security council has endorsed proposals put forward by Donald Trump for a lasting peace in Gaza, including the deployment of an international stabilisation force and a possible path to a sovereign Palestinian state. The resolution, passed by a vote of 13-0 with abstentions by China and Russia, charted “a new course in the Middle East for Israelis and Palestinians and all the people of the region alike”, the US envoy to the UN, Mike Waltz, told the council chamber. Continue reading...

In a recent lecture, Supreme Court Justice Lord Briggs places renewed emphasis on the common law’s ability to protect human rights, and argues that we should not doubt its capaity to step in if the…

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The vote revealed the depth of Iraq’s political fatigue and the power of dependency politics.