Naming rights: Catherine Henderson on countering the rise of fascism

‘How we act now has the potential to profoundly affect what will come next.’

by Catherine Henderson 16th October 2026

We need to talk about fascism. Not the fascism we learnt about at school, but the twenty-first century version. Most apparent in the US but also spreading ominously across Europe, fascism thrives on human insecurity and polarisation. It pushes its way up through the cracks in society. We don’t always notice it at first; we don’t want to notice it.