Yet the trend is unmistakable. This handy map from Politico Europe shows the rise of far-right and nationalist parties across the continent. The Netherlands looks set to have what has been ...

I am looking at a map of Europe from a recent edition of The Economist.Each country is rendered in a shade of red according to its level of public support for the hard right: the higher, the darker.

For 900 years the accident of 20 miles of Channel water has given Britain a proud aloofness from the European Continent. As recently as last month, Punch could lampoon a "European" as ...