Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Today though,

we're stepping away from the news to bring you a few mind-stretching feature stories.

Leonora Carrington was one of the most important artists in surrealism, but she made her own

surreality centered on women as domestic goddesses, sorceresses, witches. Our correspondent

follows her adventurous path deep into Mexico to uncover what inspired her.

And speaking of witchery, in Myanmar, there's a curious rise of wizards. They've always been a part

of the Buddhist religion after the country's transition from dictatorship, they're flourishing.

You can even catch them on YouTube.

First up though.

A lot of people in Britain take pride in the idea that the country's not susceptible to extreme

politics, like fascism in the way that some of our European neighbours have been, but in fact,

that's not a completely accurate picture. Andrew Miller is an economist's culture editor.

My only did fascism have a brief moment of prominence in the 1930s when it was on the rise

in other countries too. Surprisingly, after the Second World War, the fascists made a bit of a

comeback as well. After the war, cities, particularly bits of London were bomb sites,

austerity was even tougher than it had been during the war, and bread was rations after the

fighting finish it never had been during the conflict, so it was quite fertile territory for

extreme politics. Antisemitism had a research on the war too, in part because some people

erroneously blame Jews for it having happened in the first place, in part because they thought

the refugees were taking housing at all to be going to honest British servicemen, and in part

because of events in Palestine where there was tension between Zionist paramilitaries and

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