This is the thirty-fifth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling … Read the rest
Category: BNP
The British political arena has long been an inhospitable place for minor parties. While UKIP is the latest to turn heads, from one election to the next history is littered … Read the rest
BNP talking to voters. Image by Matthew Barrett.
This post originally appeared on British Politics and Policy at LSE.
Among academics who study elections and political parties, most accept … Read the rest
This post first appeared over at Dr Matt Goodwin’s personal blog.
For the British National Party and Nick Griffin, the forthcoming elections in London mark an opportunity to stage
The Radio 4 programme ‘Four Thought’ recently aired my talk on the prospects for the far right in Britain.
A slightly different version was published in the BBC News magazine… Read the rest
Dr Matthew Goodwin, a member of staff in the School of Politics and International Relations at Nottingham – and the author of New British Fascism, a recently published … Read the rest
On June 1 2011, we contributed a post about the extent to which the British National Party, UK Independence Party and the Conservatives were ‘fishing in the same pond’ of … Read the rest
In an insightful piece in this blog, Matthew Goodwin reported on his research about the UKIP and the BNP, portraying the former as a ‘polite alternative’ to the latter … Read the rest
Most analysis of the recent elections in England and Wales focused on the fortunes of the three main parties – but they saw the BNP perform very badly indeed.
Drawing … Read the rest
To coincide with the publication of New British Fascism, its author, Matthew Goodwin, has recorded this podcast in which he talks about his reasons for writing a book … Read the rest