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Police attempt to disperse protesters near Newtownabbey, in Belfast.

Ugly scenes on Belfast streets tap into simmering rage of a fed-up public

While the news coverage of these protests highlights young men wearing balaclavas, there are many more in the city who support the cause without going so far as to throw things at police.

  • David Crowe

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Thomas Sewell’s mansion home.

Rich mates, secret mansions: Australia’s millionaire Nazi-backers revealed

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell is living in a secret multimillion-dollar compound in Melbourne’s far north-east “gifted” to him by one of the wealthy backers helping Australia’s neo-Nazis plot their next move into politics.

  • Sherryn Groch
A person worships as a recorded video message from President Donald Trump plays at Rededicate 250.

‘Rededicate our nation back to God’: Trump-backed prayer rally delivers for true believers

Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage at an event highlighting how the Trump administration is weaponising religion.

  • Tiffany Stanley
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson stood by Allan Beale, pictured here with him at the North Albury pre-polling centre

One Nation volunteer shared post defending police killer Dezi Freeman

Allan Beale, who clashed with Liberal senator James Paterson at a polling station during the Farrer campaign, also supported neo-Nazi figure Thomas Sewell in a series of social media posts.

  • Rob Harris and Brittany Busch
UK PM Keir Starmer has seemingly lost all support inside his party.

Tumult in Westminster reveals an uncomfortable truth for Labour

Keir Starmer is on borrowed time as senior cabinet members lose faith in him, but as the drama unfolds, the entire episode piles more embarrassment on the UK government.

  • David Crowe
Joel Davis at the neo-Nazi rally outside parliament.

Man charged with hate speech after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW Parliament House

Notorious neo-Nazi Joel Davis has been charged with inciting racial hatred after a rally outside NSW Parliament House last year.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Patrick Begley
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) waves to supporters celebrating the BJP’s victory in the recently held state assembly elections.

The world’s biggest democracy is about to become a one-party state

Despite economic headwinds, election defeats for two major rivals this week have left India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking increasingly unassailable.

  • Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar and Pragati K.B.
Nigel Farage, and his Reform UK party, is surging in the polls.

‘Britain is broken’: How one man is cashing in on UK’s doom loop

Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform UK party, has managed to successfully weaponise the anxiety of voters and put the snap, crackle and pop back into populism.

  • David Crowe
Damage from a suspicious fire at a former church, the site of a proposed mosque, in Kilmore on Tuesday.

Muslim leader to meet police chief over Islamophobia investigations

A rise in violent threats and two suspicious blazes in two days have Victoria’s Muslim community on edge but police say the fires are not hate-related.

  • Sherryn Groch
Joel Gilbert, a US filmmaker, conservative activist and conspiracy theorist.

Obama conspiracy theorist to address Australian conservative summit

American filmmaker and Infowars regular Joel Gilbert is speaking this week at Advance’s new conference in Sydney along with former prime minister Tony Abbott and Victorian MP Moira Deeming.

  • Michael Koziol