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Abstract

Patriotic Alternative (PA) is one of Britain’s largest fascist organisations. PA members have served prison sentences for terrorism and hate crime offences and MPs have called for the organisation to be proscribed under counter-terrorism legislation. This article employs a cultural and narrative criminological approach to analyse PA activists’ accounts of their political journeys into the far right. PA activists’ stories are simultaneously personal accounts of conversion and narratives of impending racial apocalypse. The study offers insights into how the internet and social media now facilitate pathways into the far right, and the emotional dimensions of contemporary far-right narratives and beliefs.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 the Author(s). Published with license by taylor & francis Group, This is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. the terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted manuscript in a repository by the author(s)or with their consent.
Publisher Keywords:	cultural criminology, far right, narrative criminology, Patriotic Alternative, radicalization, red pill
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs School of Policy & Global Affairs > Department of Sociology & Criminology
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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