The Big Lie – how right-wingers make stuff up to win elections
The devastation unfolding in Gaza this week has ignited the ugliest of political deceit, backed up by a lapdog right-wing press.
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CPC23: ‘Madchester’ redefined
As Manchester recovers from hosting a Conservative Party Conference defined by lies, culture wars and conspiracy theories, Right-Wing Watch looks at some of the maddest conference moments.
5 things we learnt from the Tory Party conference
From the bizarre to the horrifying at Tory Party conference 2023
Making babies – the Right’s latest bright idea
Orbán-style birthrate populism with nasty racist undertones has arrived in Britain. How worried should we be?
What will happen to the Tories if they lose the next election?
The internal fall-out over Sunak’s Net Zero U-turn and Truss’ admission that her own party didn’t buy her tax cuts, tells us everything about the current state of a deeply divided Conservative party, where different factions, with their own ideologies, motives, followers, and agendas, will be vying to take grip of the party, post-general election.
Far-right governments’ erosion of media pluralism: a route map for our own domestic right?
The uneasy parallels between British media and the media in countries led by far-right nationalists, confirms the desperate need for media reform in the UK.
The political and economic consequences of Liz Truss
12 months after her shambolic premiership commenced, we look at the lasting impact of our shortest-serving PM’s disastrous attempt to remould Britain into a low tax, deregulated economy.
Met Commissioner accused of pandering to the right-wing in Telegraph interview
“Him taking this stand shows me he’s not impartial because he’s pandering to the top boss, to the right-wing”
Treatment of asylum seekers slammed as they board Bibby Stockholm barge
A “dark day for our country”
How Uxbridge emboldened the anti-climate-action Right
Earth has passed from a warming phase into an ‘era of global boiling,’ says the UN chief. Could there be a worst time to drag the existential climate crisis into party politics and debate about potential backsliding on environmental commitments?