Hardliners are thriving on popular disenchantment with politics. Dinyar Godrej on the challenge they pose.
I have to be honest. My first reaction is usually groaning disbelief.
As I write it’s the run-up to the general elections in the Netherlands where I live and a certain bleached blond bombshell is impossible to avoid because he has led the polls for much of it.1
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