Abstract
In this issue’s Editors’ Choice article, Matthew Goodwin, David Cutts and Laurence Janta-Lipinski investigate the make-up and motivations of one of the most prominent of recent anti-Islamist groups, the English Defence League (EDL). In the face of some widely-held assumptions, they conclude that typical EDL supporters, though poorer and less well-educated than the average UK citizen, are not especially drawn from the numbers of the unemployed or the socially excluded. The single strongest predictor of EDL support is the holding of xenophobic opinions.