With Johnson’s significant majority, Britain inches closer to the ranks of nations where there has been a dramatic shift to the right – Brazil, India, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Israel, the Philippines and the US among others. The circumstances in each country vary but each have seen blustering “strongmen” gallop to victory on explicitly chauvinist and xenophobic platforms. India citizenship law: shock at crackdown may unite Modi opponents Read moreThe rampage of rightwing forces emerges from variations on a lethal cocktail. We too have to join forces locally and globally contributing to the work begun by principled dissidents in places as far apart as Turkey and India, Brazil and Italy. • Priyamvada Gopal teaches in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2019 13:53 UTC