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While the links between the anti-trans moral panic and the far-right are well-documented, 'Gender Critical' feminists are able shield themselves from that connection because of the common assumption that feminism and fascism are polar opposites. But, at many points in history, the distinction between feminism and fascism has been far from clear cut.

Yes, that Marseillaise: the anthem of liberty written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and France’s national song. In 1934 the British Union of Fascists needed a song of its own. But its publication Fascist Week rejected Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory, a far-Right favourite then as now, because “it stands for ideals we regard as obsolete”. The Italian fascist anthem Giovinezza was deemed too, well, Italian. Instead, asked Blackshirt magazine (the British Union of Fascists�...

AMID the serious criminal offences committed during the recent breach of the US Capitol, one prominent trespass was against good taste. Numerous commentators, including original I Three singers Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, took exception to Trump supporters singing Bob Marley classics Three Little Birds and One Love. The sound of white nationalists appropriating Afro-Caribbean music — though all too familiar in the Britain of the 1970s and ’80s — was considered both offensive and sur...

After rioters outside the US Capitol sang Bob Marley’s 'Three Little Birds', here are more global instances when history has sounded a little out of tune.