Depends what you mean by “way of life”. Or, as it is sometimes put, “our culture”. In general terms it is important to stress that right wing propaganda feeds on fear, and most of things they want you to be afraid of actually don’t exist. Their usual method is to invent a threat they say […]
According to The Independent, one way to undermine the West is to encourage factions, and one way to do that is to spread disinformation and encourage extremism. So next time you see a lot of people all saying the same violent or hate-filled thing on social media, don’t think it is a popular movement. It […]
There will be two types of problem here – those who oppose the movement on principle and those who simply do not understand. The former will be trying to manipulate the latter so this is to help explain what the issues are and how to avoid being led astray by rhetoric and misleading posts. George […]
That question is particularly important after the Brexit referendum, as demonstrations and some newspapers are making a lot of noise about their opponents being ‘enemies of the people’ and ‘traitors’. There seems to be a chance that Parliament will actually be suspended, or ‘prorogued’, which has not happened since we had to chop off the […]
What can we say to persuade a Polish or American coal miner to stop digging coal? Increasingly, people in all countries are coming to understand that you cannot keep on polluting the only plant we live on. There is no real dispute now that science is on the side of the environmentalists. The word used […]
Why are there so many mass shootings in Europe and the USA? One reason is that unstable elements on the far right are stirred up by The Great Replacement Theory (GRT). Mass shootings are an extreme reaction to it, but it also has many other, more slippery but still dangerous effects. It originated when Renaud […]
Capitalism without social control is like a football match without a referee, only playing for your life. The strongest are free to break the rules and take everything. Then they make their own rules, so they can keep it all. Right wing arguments make much of the idea that everyone should be free to own […]
There is a general rule about any form of argument that the first person to mention Hitler has lost. Political debate in the UK has increasingly come to reference the war in ways that are very ironic and misleading and need to be unpicked. This morning I saw a picture on the newspaper of a […]