15 h. ago Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death

Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’

Tucker Carlson’s interview with the activist revealed the mainstream right is being flooded by extremism – and it’s now impossible to containFive days a week, thousands of fans gather online to watch Nick Fuentes hold court about the dangers of non-white immigration, feminism and “organized Jewry”. Usually dressed in a dark suit and tie, he lectures to his far-right followers, known as “Groypers”, about what he argues is the insufficient radicalism of Donald Trump’s Republican party and what he describes as the perfidies of the state of Israel and its American supporters.Fuentes’s fixation with Israel is not rooted in concern about the war in Gaza but a belief, in his telling, that Jews are responsible for most of society’s problems. Fuentes, who is 27 and lives in Illinois, has called Adolf Hitler “really fucking cool” and compared the Holocaust to the baking of cookies. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Four men in Swedish ‘active club’ jailed over racially motivated assaults

Men aged 20 to 23 were connected to Active Club Sweden, part of growing gym-focused pattern in far-right activismFour men in Sweden have been found guilty of racially motivated assaults and sentenced to jail after a trial that revealed a growing pattern of far-right activists banding together in fitness clubs.The four men, aged 20 to 23, were members of an “active club” – loosely structured groups that meet in gyms and aim to promote white nationalist, misogynist and hyper-masculine ideology. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Four ‘active club’ members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults

Men aged 20 to 23 convicted at trial that showed pattern of far-right activists getting together in gymsFour men in Sweden have been found guilty of racially motivated assaults and sentenced to jail after a trial that revealed a growing pattern of far-right activists banding together in fitness clubs.The four men, aged 20 to 23, were members of an “active club”. Such clubs are loosely structured groups that meet in gyms and aim to promote white nationalist, misogynist and hyper-masculine ideology. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump gets ‘thank you’ from racist Nick Fuentes after he defends Tucker Carlson interview with Mar

The controversy over Carlson’s interview of the Holocaust-denying racist podcaster has roiled the MAGA-forward Heritage Foundation and exposed fault lines within the Trump-era GOP

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3 d. ago White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformationEntries in Elon Musk’s new online encyclopedia variously promote white nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures, promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive concepts and approaches historically associated with scientific racism, a Guardian analysis has found.The tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally recently launched xAI’s AI-generated Grokipedia with a promise that it would “purge out the propaganda” he claims infests Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that Musk has often attacked but that has long been a key feature of the internet. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump defends Tucker Carlson after interview with white nationalist splits Republican Party

Three years ago, Trump hosted Fuentes at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, along with the rapper Ye

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8 d. ago Tucker Carlson starts losing sponsors after fawning interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes

Two days after a news site called out Rocket Money for ‘financing white supremacy,’ the financial services app suddenly removed all mentions of its advertising relationship with Tucker Carlson.

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1 week ago Tucker Carlson tells Megyn Kelly that critics can ‘buzz off’ after his softball interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes

‘You know, do your own interview the way that you want to do it. You’re not my editor. Buzz off’

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2 w. ago Heritage Foundation leader apologizes for backing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist

Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick FuentesThe leader of the conservative thinktank behind Project 2025 apologized for supporting a white nationalist amid turmoil on the right over the mainstreaming of extremist ideology, but is resisting calls to resign.Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, previously defended the former Fox host Tucker Carlson for having Hitler fan Nick Fuentes on his podcast without pushing back on his white supremacist views. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Heritage Foundation denies distancing itself from Tucker Carlson following Nick Fuentes interview

‘Conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government, no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their mouthpieces in Washington,’ said Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts

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3 w. ago Electrician who worked in busy office block for two decades dies aged 66

Andrew Horton's family has launched a civil compensation claim alleging his death was the result of asbestos exposure

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