Right-Wing Watch
Right-wing media watch: Cartoon backlash dominates the news cycle, while Farage evades scrutiny
While newspapers eagerly amplified every angle of the Polanski controversy, there was notably less interest in stories involving Nigel Farage.
How mental health was dragged into the culture war
Rising levels of mental ill health are not the product of a cultural fad, driven by TikTok content that frames traits like talkativeness or difficulty finishing projects as evidence of ADHD, as the culture warriors would have us believe.
Woke-bashing of the week: Anger builds as trans-inclusive parkrun targeted despite saving NHS £36.5m a year
“The fact they’re going after parkrun says a lot about them."
Right-Wing Media Watch: From ‘woke wrecker’ to Washington hero – the press’s slavering hypocrisy laid bare in King’s US visit
Even a fleeting, oblique reference to victims of abuse, widely read as a nod to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, in which the King’s own brother is implicated, was treated as deft statesmanship rather than scrutinised for its vagueness.
The radical right in power: corrupt, authoritarian and incompetent
Allegations around funding and transparency have long followed Farage and his parties. Hungary suggests that even when such issues don’t immediately derail a political project, they have a habit of catching up with it.
Woke-bashing of the week: The Sun’s latest NHS panic
The paper cast the story as yet another example of equality and diversity spiralling out of control, complete with “fury,” “bans,” and the usual parade of indignant critics.