BRITAIN’S NEW STAR on the far, far right. “A media circus starring the Holocaust-denying, openly racist leader of an openly racist party.” Well, given how acceptable antisemitism has become in Britain, generally, it’s less of a stretch than it would have been a few years ago. And the general failure of the political system there has opened things up to what amounts to an opportunistic infection. “The economic chaos that accompanied the fall of the Labour government in 1979 was exploited by racist and nationalist groups, and it’s no coincidence that now, as then, such elements are growing in popularity during the death throes of a Labour administration. Thatcher was largely able to repair the damage. These days, however, the malaise runs deeper.”