Why the cosy relationship between the right wing media and government is bad for democracy
Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor Dominic Cummings accused the government of giving a bung to big media corporations.
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Why is Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel building a financial and political network in the UK?
The billionaire has been investing in lots of British startups and has connections to right wing academics pushing an anti-woke agenda.
Right Wing Watch Newsletter: Localism in the Local Elections
For this week’s newsletter I traveled to Essex to talk to a local independent party challenging the Tories.
Institute of Economic Affairs denies that fossil fuel funding affects its opposition to taxing oil company profits
The free market think tank says we shouldn’t tax oil companies more as BP and Shell announced record profits
Why James Delingpole and Maajid Nawaz’s event for vaccine sceptics should worry us
The conspiracy theory-promoting event was attended by figures like Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson and John Mappin.
Right Wing Watch Newsletter: Democracy dismembered
Scandal engulfs the Tory party as they push through a raft of authoritarian legislation.
Douglas Murray’s white identity politics gets a boost from Murdoch media
Defender of Western values Douglas Murray is back with a new book which has been promoted across the Murdoch media network.
TalkTV fans flames of culture war in first week of launch
TalkTV launched this week, with a heavy concentration on culture war issues from presenters like Piers Morgan.
Right Wing Watch Newsletter: How social media promotes right wing news channels
This week I look at the right wing media ecosystem, and how social media promotes right wing content.
Murdoch’s new channel TalkTV gears up for launch
Murdoch’s new TV channel launches next week, and its star host Piers Morgan is already whipping up controversy with his Trump interview.