This essay, on why fascism failed in Britain, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on working class writers and publishing.) It was published on 3 May 2020, under the headline‘British fascism has never thrived but its failure has been useful for the mainstream’. The history of British fascism is a history of failure. In a new book, Failed Führers, the historian Graham Macklin retells that story through biographies of six fascist leaders, from Arnold […]

Categories: Britain, Politics • Tags: alain benoist, british fascism, british nationalism, conservative party, failed fuhrers, far right, fascism, graham macklin, identity politics, john tyndall, margaret thatcher, nationalism, nazism, nick griffin, nouvelle droite, oswald mosley