The News Agents Investigates: The Rise of the Far Right
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Far Right are growing in strength, power and number across Europe and beyond. In election after election extremist forces are becoming bigger and bigger players, destroying old more traditional conservative parties.
In this episode of The News Agents Investigates, Lewis heads to the Netherlands, where an old political face, Geert Wilders, could now be king of all he surveys. But Holland is just one story, a microcosm of one of the biggest political tales of our time- the slow collapse of the centre and the forces of moderation on the right of politics.
Online conspiracy, misinformation and the polarisation arising from the Gaza War is fuelling the fire. Liberal democracy could be burnt along with it.
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Video Producer: Rory Symon
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.6 | This is a global player, original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | The Newsagents Investigates. |
| 0:25.1 | It might come as no surprise, but the far right have won the elections in Italy. |
| 0:31.4 | The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Oban, has secured a fourth consecutive landslide election victory. |
| 0:35.7 | Europe's nationalist wave has arrived in Spain. |
| 0:39.3 | Marine Le Pen has perhaps never been as close to power. The latest polls indicate. |
| 0:41.3 | The CS poll has been shaken up by a surge in popularity of the Eurosceptic and far-right |
| 0:46.3 | Sweden Democrat movement. |
| 0:49.3 | Something is stirring across Europe. |
| 0:52.3 | Slowly, then quickly, a tectonic change to our politics to where |
| 0:56.5 | the balance of our politics sits. From the Netherlands to Italy to France, to Germany, to Ireland, |
| 1:02.8 | the UK, Hungary, beyond. Radical elements of the right, even far right, once consigned to the |
| 1:10.0 | fringes of political life, are growing in number, in parliaments, in power. |
| 1:15.1 | And not just formal power, the sort of power you get from winning elections, though they're winning plenty of those. |
| 1:19.9 | It's the power to shape how we think, the power to channel the online world, |
| 1:24.6 | the power to move the center of political debate |
| 1:27.5 | to the point where they don't even seem extreme anymore, |
| 1:30.8 | that they've become normal or mainstream when they're neither. |
| 1:34.7 | On this episode of the newsagents investigates the rise of the far right, |
| 1:38.8 | the collapse of the center why liberal democracy is under siege. |
| 1:45.0 | I believe we have enough Islam in Europe today. |
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