Richard Donnelly

Postgraduate researcher // I study conspiracy theories and the far right

Posting in a personal capacity

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After speaking in Aarhus, I had the interesting opportunity to travel by train to Flensburg (or Flensborg in Danish), which was the capital of the Third Reich for 21 days after the suicide of Hitler. Today, it's a very quaint town where around 20pc of the population speak Danish.

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I had a good time in Aarhus speaking at the Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism. My presentation was about inter-group competition in the British extreme right and how it shapes their conspiracy theorising. Here's a photo of a Danish cat.

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I'm planning to take a look at the new Belsen exhibition at the Wiener Library later this week, and I encourage others to do so too. [3/3]

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My grandad was one of those tasked with heaping these bodies into enormous mass graves, and British soldiers also forced captured SS personnel to do this work under the barrel of a gun. Eighty years on, we need to fight to retain the memory of what that generation suffered in the hope that it would all never happen again. [2/3]

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Today, I'm remembering my grandfather, who was part of the forces that liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on this day in 1945. The Allied forces discovered 13,000 corpses in the camp. [1/3]

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A key part of Farage's project is to harness hostility to migrants, LGBT+ people and the left in order to drive through a neoliberal, pro-business and anti-working class agenda. Exposing that will be a big part of frustrating him. [14]

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"Loser!"

The protests during the launch of Reform's Doncaster local elections launch today showed how antiracist interventions can challenge the political strategy of Nigel Farage. [1]

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... as an estate agent. An internet search reveals he is also a "ForEx trader". Hardly representative of young people or Doncasterians. Anti-racists will benefit from revealing the class interests that should cut Reform off from working-class voters. [13]

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Well done to Private Eye for running this story.