Now Even Yoga is Fascist
29th July 2025
With the reviews and interviews in for a new book, British newspaper readers are getting an insight into how politics now works. Fascist Yoga, by the arts provocateur Stewart Home, is being trailed heavily as showing how historically what he calls ‘modern postural practice’ was attractive to 20th century fascists. He means actual fascists, not figures on the contemporary centre right.
Home’s serious point—he “wanted to do a headstand. However, after some cursory research, he realised something troubling: so did the Waffen-SS,” according to the struggling Observer news site—is providing the hook for headlines that scream yoga is fascist, secretly fascist, a breeding ground for fascists or ‘merely’ racist in nature.
As europeanconservative.com has pointed out before, the hyperbole reflects a tendency to present anyone to the right of Ursula von der Leyen, or even Keir Starmer, as ‘far right’ or worse. Even the English countryside is now ‘racist.’ Now satirists are beginning to wake up to the way that such labelling has gotten out of control—while this publication advises readers to take heart from the allegation.