by Herb Greer

About the author: Herb Greer is an American writer living in England. Greer is a contributing editor to The World & I, a monthly magazine of culture, politics, and science.

Fascism is becoming ominously fashionable again in Europe. On the continent it is manifested principally as violent xenophobia. But a more classic version has operated for more than twenty years in the United Kingdom. It is a cabal dedicated not only to the brutal hatred of foreigners, but to the exploitation of Jacobin rhetoric about human rights while consistently violating those rights; to the aim of a dictatorial one-party state; to the use of murder and mutilation of dissenters from its vicious brand of politics; to the dehumanization of its opponents; to a callous indifference to ordinary civilian life, expressed in random bombings...