George Newth (he/him) is a lecturer (assistant professor) in politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses, principally, on how populist, far right and nationalist forms of politics are normalised via narratives of “common sense”. His first book, Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective, investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic’s oldest surviving political party, the far-right Lega (Nord). George’s forthcoming edited volume with Liverpool University Press (co-edited with Professor Ruth Wodak) is provisionally titled The Struggle for Common Sense: Discourse, Power, and Democratic Futures.