The benefits that Reform champions are largely reserved for those who conform to the right’s ideal of the ‘traditional family,’ that is married, heterosexual, and supportive of conservative values.
“It isn’t the thought police if she expressed those thoughts in writing and published that writing on social media.”
Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and perennial culture-warrior, is once again stirring the pot.
Welcome to the first Right Wing Watch newsletter of February.
As an anthropological experiment, I listened to two whole episodes of the London Calling podcast, and I actually quite enjoyed myself.
The Tories are happy to overlook and ignore misogyny, homophobia and other bigotry when defending their friends and political allies.
And a former Labour MP, thought to be the subject of one of Young’s misogynist tweets, said he should go “immediately”.
Time and again the free school zealot has shown that his views are incompatible with an open and inclusive education system.
English chauvinism is of no help in fighting ‘murderous fascists’
Eton has a practice known as “oiling”, which as Anthony Seldon has approvingly noted “is learning how to win friends and influence others, and how to clamber over them to get what you want. It’s a mixture of ambition, self-confidence and bloody-mindedness.”
