National Front Articles

The suburbs have long attracted criticism. In the 1852 novel Basil by Wilkie Collins it is said that anyone taking a trip to suburbia would most likely have taken leave of their senses because ‘its newness and desolateness of appearance revolted me.’ It is likely he...

Politics in football is never a pretty sight As a football fan, I always prefer to keep politics and football separate. So I’ve really struggled with the appointment of Paolo di Canio at Sunderland. The news immediately caused a stir because of his fascist beliefs,...

The anti-racist politics of the 1970s gained a wider audience than a conventional political campaign, recalls Peter Hain Were it not for the launch of the Anti-Nazi League in 1977, the disturbing rise in the National Front may well have continued. In the mid-1970s...

Nicolas Sarkozy made French history on Sunday - he became the first incumbent president to fail to win the first round in the Fifth Republic. Francois Hollande topped the poll and gave great hope to the French socialists who haven’t won a presidential election for 24...