Why Europe’s populist revolt is spreading

Josh Lowe, Owen Matthews and Matt McAllester examine what’s happening in Europe to try to understand what’s behind the emergence and spread of the current global populist revolt

Is there really an international wave of a hard-right populism? Are the masses rising up around the world to topple corrupt elites?

Or is talk of this colossal political shift just jargon, guff and cocktail chatter concocted by analysts searching for patterns when the victories of Donald Trump in the US presidential election and Britain’s decision to leave the EU — to name the two most significant results in the West — could just be unconnected blips?