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How freaky hair 'won' in the Netherlands and Britain

Jon Danzig

An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold...

You and human rights

Jon Danzig

Let’s get this straight: Human rights legislation is all about protecting ordinary citizens from excesses of the state – in other words, OUR GOVERNMENT.That’s why it’s important that the final arbiter must be the international court in Strasbourg because the European Convention on Human Rights...

The bias changed and we got Brexit

Jon Danzig

Brexit used to sit on the far side lines of politics.Indeed, the word ‘Brexit’ was only invented in 2012, and until the referendum, most people didn’t know what it meant.(Now it’s in the Oxford English dictionary.)An in-depth study by the Migration Observatory showed that:The volume of press...