Robinson is neither a break with, nor a crude throwback to, earlier articulations of British fascism. It then traces how the defeats of party-based British fascism produced the EDL and, later, Robinson’s “post-organisational” and digitised model of leadership. They represent the sense in which Robinson has restructured the British fascist movement at an organisational level as well as an ideological one. In its aftermath, British fascism fragmented into micro-groups, online subcultures, influencers and episodic protest networks incapable of consolidation. Were such a vehicle to coalesce, it would mark a qualitatively new and potentially more dangerous phase in the development of British fascism.

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2026 22:30 UTC