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The Branding of Fear: How ISIS & The Far-Right Market to Men (ft. Dr Stephen Herron)
This episode was recorded at the start of December 2025.
A recent surge in ISIS activity has reminded the world that Islamist extremism remains a potent and active threat. For many, the recent attack by ISIS felt like a shock - a ghost returning from the past. But as we discuss in this episode, these groups never went away; they just became harder to see.
In the fragmented, siloed landscape of modern social media, extremism of all kinds - from ISIS to the Far Right- exists side-by-side, competing for the same scarce commodity we are: Attention.
In this episode, Claire Coady and James Wickham…
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