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After Brexit and Trump, Austrian voters seem to have stopped the latest wave of right-wing populist in this week’s presidential elections. With the support of large parts of the governing parties, the Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen defeated the nationalist...

Within the space of a week, two acts of appalling barbarity – one on either side of the Atlantic – have shocked and saddened us. On the night of 11 June, Omar Mateen killed 49 people in a gay bar in Orlando. Six days later, Labour member of parliament Jo Cox was...

Austria dodged electing a far-right president by the smallest of margins yesterday. In an election that was too close to call on Sunday night, postal votes pushed Green Alexander Van Der Bellen over the line, beating Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom party (FPO)...

Matthew Goodwin charts the sharp decline of Nick Griffin’s former party Nick Griffin used to tell his supporters that a crisis would bring them to power. Only when the economy had collapsed and the established political class had been discredited would voters turn to...