Right-Wing Watch
Restore Britain: Can Farage be outflanked by a revolt on the far-right?
Britain’s fragmented electoral landscape can produce strange outcomes, and even a modest Restore vote share could complicate matters for Reform by siphoning off support from the same political constituency. If nothing else, that prospect may puncture some of Reform’s recent swagger.
Woke-bashing of the week: Je suis outraged – the right’s GCSE French panic
The British right-wing press appears far more transfixed on the possibility of teenagers writing iel in a GCSE exam than by the actual conditions trans people live under.
Right-Wing Media Watch: The right’s relentless campaign against Angela Rayner is as boring as it is predictable
With Starmer’s leadership hanging in the balance, right-wing commentators have scarcely concealed their panic at the prospect of Angela Rayner rising further in power.
Beyond the media hype: Is the Reform bandwagon running out of road?
The looming Makerfield by-election matters far beyond a single seat. If Andy Burnham were able to halt Reform’s advance there, it would suggest that a sufficiently popular, locally rooted candidate can still assemble a broad anti-Reform coalition under Britain’s fragmented electoral system.
Woke-bashing of the week: the right ramps up its never-ending war on the civil service
Where Thatcher-era critics warned of Trotskyists and bureaucratic inertia, today’s culture warriors’ rail against “woke snowflakes” and diversity workshops.
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.