FRACTURED: FAR RIGHT TYPOLOGIES. Part I. A Segmentation of a Far Right
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- Nov 23
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Resilience & Reconstruction x The Outsiders
This publication introduces the foundations of our ongoing collaboration examining the cultural, emotional, and ideological landscapes of the modern Far Right in Britain. Far from being a unified movement, it is a coalition built from fragments—eight tribes bound by grievance, nostalgia, and distrust rather than shared vision. FRACTURED maps these intersecting networks and the narratives that lend them momentum across social and political space.
Fear. Nostalgia. Anger. Suspicion. These are the threads holding together the Far Right. But if you pull at the seams, then you start to see just how fractured it really is. After years of interviews and study, something is clear: The far right is a messy, divided, contradictory coalition, and far from a monolithic bloc.
We have to understand these fractures if we want to confront themOur assessment identifies an increasingly influential element within the movement: the Clerical class – the self-declared thinkers and interpreters of its cause. They serve as the intellectual foundation of right-wing populism and the Far Right, though they often reject both labels. Their growing influence lies in the construction of a global counter-movement against globalisation, framed around the supposed defence of “free speech,” resistance to “woke” culture, and Islamophobia masked as cultural concern. This ideological bloc directly challenges the Somewhere/Anywhere framework and its underlying principles of openness and plurality.
The eight segments revealed here form the scaffolding on which modern British populism stands – each animated by fear of loss and longing for belonging. Together, they represent a mood more than a movement, an emotional condition rather than a coherent politics. Understanding its fractures is essential for addressing the forces that turn uncertainty into identity, and discontent into doctrine.
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