" police vans have right wing magazines on display in their windscreen as happened quite recently."
Maybe the magazine was part of an ongoing investigation into far-right crime? 
I have been following recent 'In the News' threads with great interest. These are interesting times we live in, not all bad, thankfully but certainly many unsettling developments in the world.
As a country and economy we in Western Europe are indeed profiting from globalisation, but the profits are not fairly distributed hence a growing rich and poor divide. Trying to hold on to our busy jobs and minding the pennies, we happily buy from H&M, and other retailers selling goods that were produced under conditions we would find unacceptable for ourselves and our children. We know it, we feel uncomfortable about it, yet we do it anyway.
The top transnational firms mostly originate in the US, UK and a few select other European countries. There is enough cash-flow for the working- and middle classes to participate in the economy to keep it going but we matter much less politically than we would like to believe, sadly.
Oil money is obviously bubbling in MENA, again only a select few profit from the oil industry, the money is not shared evenly. The two strong currents are neoliberal capitalism and Salafist Islam. I don't know where to place Russia and Australia/NZ in all this.
We in Europe are increasingly bewildered as the price of globalisation becomes ever more apparent: the poorest people from Asia and Africa are poring into Europe. The Internet, smart phones, reduced cost of travel and a relative increase in economic wealth in developing countries promote migration to Europe. I think that this is a massive shame. Instead of facilitating mass migration, we should help build up developing countries in all sorts of ways and help broker peace in these regions with all our diplomatic might.
Think about just how close the African, European and Asian continents are, we are really just one divided by a tiny stretch of Mediterranean sea. Remember how they teach you in school that the world map as we most kano it is a Eurocentric view of the world? Anyway, European welfare states are less able and willing to support their citizens as it is. The poorest in the UK and other EU countries will suffer the most from mass immigration as they have to share decreasing resources and their public spaces with more incoming destitute people, who may have very different ways of life, potentially causing friction and misunderstanding in their day to day struggles.
Saying that, migration of MENA's poor is not our only problem. If you think how much of GB is actually now owned by Saudi, China and Russian oligarchs... Well powerful, rich MENA men in Europe might be just this bit more scary and worrying...
Not wanting to sound gloomy but i believe that what we are used to in Europe and the way life has been since WWII ended is on its way out. European societies have changed so much after WWI and WWII, when the upper classes and their ways got thrown over for a while I believe we are facing another massive cultural and political shift. Apologies for stream of consciousness.