Pretty scary results in the EU elections - Neo Nazi golden dawn gets its first MPs, Front Nationale continues to grow in France, and UKIP totally blitz the MEP elections in the UK (although Labour still on course to win the general election at home).

Islamophobia is steadily on the rise, and while the street group EDL has pretty much fizzled out, bombings, shootings and assaults are on the rise in Greece, there was a shooting in a Jewish museum in Belgium last week (afaik the shooter hasn't been caught), and while the current situation in ukraine is presented as an US-EU/Russia powerplay, it is also interesting to note the forces at play on the ground - groups of far right activists (with US/EU backing) have been beating and burning ethnic russians to death (whilst western media lays largely silent - google odessa massacre 2014). This is disturbing enough but more disturbing is the idea that pockets of such people seem to still exist in europe

All part of a cycle or are we heading into fratricidal nationalistic insanity once again?