How Britain’s corrupt political funding helps the Right
With the 2024 general election set to be the dirtiest battle yet, the party which receives the most money from donors could be at a distinct advantage.
With the 2024 general election set to be the dirtiest battle yet, the party which receives the most money from donors could be at a distinct advantage.
With Nigel Farage, a self-declared Putin admirer, believed to be on the political rise and intending to ‘shape politics’ before the country goes to the polls this year, you wonder how the western right’s anti-Ukraine sentiment may impact on the UK.
As the multimillionaire Reform leader sparked ridicule claiming to represent working people
Being green and sharing compassion for refugees, the Right continue to demand that King Charles stays out of politics. But, as with Gary Lineker, the row isn’t really about impartiality, something the Right always takes the moral high ground on, but is another attempt to discredit the decency of progressive values.
The right-wing press loves to talk up its own importance, but is its influence exaggerated? And can courting the wrong media sources prove politically damaging?
Is it leadership of the Tory Party that Farage is setting his sights on, and, if so, would they have him? Or is he planning on creating havoc among the Reform Party?
The October 7 atrocities promise political gains for the far-right across Europe, which has been boosted by Geert Wilders’ – aka the ‘Dutch Trump’ – gains in the Netherlands.
The ‘New Conservatives’ are the latest hard right rebel group to enter Rishi Sunak’s crowded factional horizon. They join a long line of party caucuses jostling for political space.
The Right’s commitment to free speech is selective and self-serving, and their double standards is most transparent when it comes to Palestine.
This latest curious meeting of right-wing minds in a sold out inaugural conference at the world’s busiest concert venue, shows how much this form of cultural nationalism, which emphases the preservation of national identity, restrictions on immigration, and a rebuke of climate science, has become mainstream.