Across Europe, the far-right is no longer inevitable

The breakthroughs are less decisive, the contradictions harder to ignore, and the coalition more fragile. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the populist right?

Meloni, Farage and Orbán - far from unstoppable forces

For the past decade, there has been a depressing inevitability to European politics.

Populist right-wing parties, and their sour faced cast of strongmen, have surged, reshaping the agenda and forcing everyone else to respond on their terms. Le Pen, Orbán, Meloni, Farage: different contexts, but a shar…