Right Wing Watch newsletter: week 4 February 2022
This week’s newsletter looks at the right wing’s reaction to the unfolding conflict in Ukraine.
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Arms companies look to profit from Ukraine conflict
UK arms company BAe Systems has seen its share price rise 21% and also reported higher profits over the past year.
The right is using the crisis in Ukraine to push for more fossil fuel extraction
Fossil fuel backers are putting pressure on the government to restart fracking, despite public opposition.
Right Wing Watch newsletter: week 3 February 2022
This week we return to rural Lincolnshire to find out what Levelling Up will do for Britain’s safest Tory seat.
New government rules on ‘political impartiality’ in schools will chill free speech
New guidance on ‘political impartiality’ has been criticised for seeking to chill discussion of political subjects.
The Right’s demographic anxiety
Racial anxieties are moving from the online far right to mainstream politics.
How US think tank the Heritage Foundation influences the Conservative Party
Oliver Dowden went to give a speech about ‘cancel culture’ this week to an organisation that wants to ban books they disagree with.
GB News promotes hard right policy of offshore refugee detention
GB News has published an article publicising a report form the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange calling for refugees to be processed in offshore detention centres
Right Wing Watch newsletter: Week 2 February 2022
Levelling Down in The Fens As promised last week, this time we’re taking a deeper look at Britain’s safest Tory seat, South Holland and the Deepings, whose MP is anti-woke culture warrior Sir John Hayes. Earlier in the week Itest
Why Christopher Chope is the biggest troll in Parliament
The uber-Thatcherite Tory MP is once again spamming Parliament with low quality legislation, but why does he do it?