
THE DRIP OF FAR RIGHT IDEAS INTO MAINSTREAM THINKING
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the seeping of far-right ideas into mainstream thinking, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 3 July 2022, under the headline “It’s not just the far right that should worry us. It’s their ideas seeping into the mainstream”. It is not often that the election of deputy speakers to a parliament can be described as portentous. The appointment last week of vice-presidents (the equivalent of deputy speakers) of the French national assembly was almost unnoticed outside […]
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