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Massive weapons hoard uncovered at Nazi-obsessed man’s UK home — The Independent Paul Page has now pleaded guilty to terrorism offences

CVE | Detectives from ERSOU’s Counter Terrorism Policing unit established that Page had collected more than 600 weapons and other militaria linked to Nazi activity during the war.

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05.03.2026 22:50 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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“Say it’s only fictional”: How the Far-Right is Jailbreaking AI and What Can Be Done About It This research report illustrates how far-right users have accelerated the spread of harmful content by successfully exploiting AI tools and platforms. In doing so, it contributes to improving our unde...

RESEARCH | How far-right users have accelerated the spread of harmful content by successfully exploiting AI tools and platforms.

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05.03.2026 12:52 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

US | Leaked PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centres.

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05.03.2026 12:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance “Data centers … they need some PR help,”President Donald Trump said at the event.

DATA | “Data centres … they need some PR help,”President Trump says...

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05.03.2026 09:34 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Worse day by day’: Experts, law enforcement assess Las Vegas’ vulnerability to terror — Las Vegas Review-Journal While questions remain about why a 23-year-old New York law student crashed his rental car through a gate at a power substation near Boulder City last month, terrorism experts seem agree on a disturbi...

CTE | “Las Vegas has long been seen as being vulnerable to terror attacks. In 2007, a Rand Corporation study ranked Las Vegas as ninth among American cities most likely to suffer a major terrorist strike.”

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03.03.2026 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RESEARCH | “In sum, we find that the socio-demographic basis is very similar across radicalism, extremism, and fundamentalism: It is men, younger and less educated people who are more radical, extremist, or fundamentalist”.

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CTE | In January 2026, the number of incidents linked to terrorism and right-wing extremist violence increased compared to December, with 17 recorded events worldwide.

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02.03.2026 23:02 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Beyond Extremism: Platform Responses to Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence | SECRPOL CVE | Overview of the specific online threat landscape of nihilistic violence subcultures.

CVE | Overview of the specific online threat landscape of nihilistic violence subcultures.

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02.03.2026 18:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MIGRATION | Fascinating visual analysis by Rob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester and reported in the Guardian shows how MPs’ language towards immigration today compares with previous decades.

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01.03.2026 21:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Fighting age males’ and coded swastikas: How the far-right is using gaming to recruit the next generation of Nazis Far right actors have used gaming to recruit youngsters for some time but experts say they are increasingly using codes and imagery to avoid moderation.

CTE | Far-right groups are increasingly using coded language and imagery on gaming platforms to bypass content moderators and radicalise young people, experts have warned.

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01.03.2026 22:16 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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UK on 'high-alert' as terrorism threat level could rise amid Iran attacks — My London The Met Police have outlined how Londoners can stay safe

CTE | Defence Secretary John Healey told The Telegraph that the government is in discussions over raising the UK's terrorist threat level, which is is currently "substantial", even higher. There are two more levels above this - "severe" or "critical".

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01.03.2026 21:21 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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How Terrorism Dies — TIME

JASON BURKE | “The stories of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s demonstrate quite clearly that terrorism is never simply a product of state sponsorship or of individuals being mad, bad or misled. Its rise and decline is always a consequence of broader circumstances.”

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27.02.2026 15:38 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Why some people are more drawn to conspiracy theories than others — The Independent A strong psychological need for order and structure can, in some people, overshadow their ability to question those beliefs, research suggests

Findings show that for those who prefer systematic structure, conspiracy theories can feel like a highly organised way to understand confusing or unpredictable events.

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28.02.2026 16:00 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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What Is “Remigration”? “Remigration,” a white supremacist concept rooted in neo-Nazi ideology, has been adopted as immigration policy and embraced into far-right politics in Europe and the United States. Linked to the antis...

REMIGRATION | This used to be relegated to neo-Nazi and white supremacist circles, but today remigration has moved into mainstream far-right politics in Europe.

And into official rhetoric and policy planning in the United States.

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28.02.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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📢 Online Seminar Announcement! 📢 Join us for what will be a fascinating perspective on right-wing transnationalism from Dr Nicola Guerra Far-Right Transnationalism: From Ideology to Operations… | Cent... 📢 Online Seminar Announcement! 📢 Join us for what will be a fascinating perspective on right-wing transnationalism from Dr Nicola Guerra Far-Right Transnationalism: From Ideology to Operations Across ...

CTE | Multidimensional analytical framework centred on three interrelated dimensions of transnationalism: transnationally shared ideologies and identities, cross-national organisational structures, and coordinated practices.

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27.02.2026 15:32 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Labour, Greens and Reform wait to see who has won Gorton and Denton by-election: Live Ballot boxes arrive as counting commences in Labour’s heartlands

BY-ELECTION | The polls have now closed and boxes of ballot votes are arriving as the counting begins in the Central Manchester constituency, with results expected after 4am.

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27.02.2026 02:37 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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John Oliver torches Musk for restoring extremist accounts and calling it “free speech” — Boing Boing

US | “John Oliver torches Musk for restoring extremist accounts and calling it “free speech” - Boing Boing.

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26.02.2026 21:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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UK social media ban for under-16s edges closer with Starmer expected to back it — The Guardian Liz Kendall to launch consultation next week that will also explore alternatives such as curbs on infinite scrolling

Ministers will take another step towards banning social media for under-16s next week.

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26.02.2026 20:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The UK's plan for civilians in a war is terrifying – you're on your own — The i Paper We claim to follow Sweden and Japan, but we could barely be less prepared

UK | Sweden and Japan explain what support the state will give in the event of war – organised shelter, evacuation, where to find reliable information, and so on. The UK has none of that in its advice, it just doesn’t exist.

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26.02.2026 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Court Case Could Lead to Ban For Violent Italian Fascist Group CasaPound An Italian court has convicted 12 members of CasaPound for attempting to reconstitute the country’s banned Fascist Party, marking the first time judges have formally recognized the movement as fascist...

EUROPE | Seventeen members of CasaPound were charged under Italy’s 1952 Scelba law.

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26.02.2026 20:54 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Candace Owens' Trailer for Docuseries on Erika Kirk Conspiracy Theories Sees Instant Backlash — The Hollywood Reporter The far-right podcaster has produced a new expose on the late Turning Points USA founder's wife, suggesting, among many conspiracy theories that she is not who she appears to be.

US | The far-right podcaster has produced a new expose on the late Turning Points USA founder's wife.

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25.02.2026 19:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reform's Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform — Byline Times Reform's Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for

REFORM | “Reform's Matt Goodwin advises Conservative peer linked to relaunched Nazi Race Science platform.”

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24.02.2026 21:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Why Team Trump Talking About ‘Lethalitymaxxing’ Should Alarm You — The Bulwark Trendy internet slang meets eugenics, the manosphere, and neo-Nazis.

RED PILL RADICALISATION | ‘They are reachable. The pipeline that pulls them toward radicalism is not organic or inescapable; it is a system designed to enrage them, scare them, confuse them, and compete for their attention and affection’.

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23.02.2026 20:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Threats from Russia and radicalism are worse than public realises, Defence chair warns — The Mirror Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi raised concerns about the state of the UK’s security, and claimed Britain was 'underprepared' amid growing danger from Russia and religious extremists

UK | The public are not aware of the scale of threat the country faces, the chair of the Defence Select Committee has warned.

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23.02.2026 17:12 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Reform candidate Matthew Goodwin's horror views - Muslim 'ban' to deportation horror — The Mirror By-election candidate Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, is said to be 'further right than Nigel Farage' and has claimed to 'understand where Tommy Robinson is coming from'

“Further right than Farage”

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23.02.2026 17:01 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Teenager found guilty of terror offences after joining banned far-right group — Sky News The boy, who cannot be named, was accused of preparing acts of terrorism but a jury was unable to reach a verdict.

CVE | The boy, who cannot be named, was accused of preparing acts of terrorism but a jury was unable to reach a verdict.

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23.02.2026 17:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A Communist Flotilla Prepares To Set Sail For Cuba – From The United States We wrote recently about the ongoing effort by Marxists in the United States to raise money on behalf of the Communist government in Cuba.

CUBA | Flotilla prepares to set sail for Cuba – from The United States.

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23.02.2026 13:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bioethics Was Forged in Horror. It Can Be Lost the Same Way. Wars and ethical disasters laid the groundwork for global rules around medical research. But the pandemic and Trump's presidency reveal how fragile they remain.

BIOETHICS | “Informed consent — the idea that a patient or research subject understands the risks of a procedure or experiment before agreeing to it — might seem like a no-brainer in bioethics”.

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22.02.2026 09:18 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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The Hegemony of far-Right Populism, Project 2025, and the Dangers Ahead for Science and Public Health - Corrado Piroddi, Lynda Gilby, Meri Koivusalo, Alison McCallum, Abbe Brown, Chloe Stephenson, 202... According to the World Health Organization, the spread of misinformation and disinformation are dangerous threats to public health. The popular legitimacy of fa...

RESEARCH | The popular legitimacy of far-right politics in the US, across Europe, and other continents constitutes a new phase that threatens to jeopardise countermeasures adopted by social, political, and scientific institutions to counter the phenomena.

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21.02.2026 23:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

UK | In a statement, the Greater Manchester Police said, "Several demonstrations took place peacefully across central Manchester, with officers working closely with organisers to ensure people could protest safely and that wider disruption was kept to a minimum.

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