Right-Wing Watch
The war on net zero: how political climate consensus fell apart
Today, net zero is no longer a unifying goal, it's a political dividing line. Its biggest threat is manufactured outrage and political cowardness.
Woke bashing of the week – Reform to ban councils from flying ‘woke’ flags
Worryingly, it’s often the mad-as-a-hatter crowd who go the distance in politics, just look at Donald Trump.
Right-wing media watch – Immigration panic drowns out UK/India trade deal
You might expect that with a UK/India trade deal having been seen as one of the crown jewels of post-EU independence, the pro-Brexit media would be celebrating its arrival after more than three years of negotiations across successive governments.
Farage: who are the guilty men (and women)?
Like a recurring rash, Farage keeps coming back, louder and more emboldened each time. But who let it happen? Who are the enablers—the donors bankrolling his campaigns, the commentators parroting his lines, the broadcasters handing him a microphone time and time again, and the botched policies of the other parties?
Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s holy snitch hotline!
It makes you nostalgic for the days when it was just Fox News and of course its UK copycats - GB News and the Daily Mail - which tuned their violins for the annual “Easter cancelled” and “War on Christmas” symphony, where the absence of a nativity scene becomes a constitutional crisis.
Right-wing media watch – Mail reaches for the trans panic playbook
In faithfully amplifying Lord Ashcroft’s latest attempt to cause political embarrassment, through the ever-reliable culture war wedge, the Mail doesn’t just play dirty, it plays painfully predictable.