Britain and its Soulless Shift to the Right
In a world of dying democracies, we find ourselves confusing nationality with skin colour. The British Empire ( which some nostalgically call the “Golden Age”) was built upon slave labour and settler colonialism. Nothing about the nation we inhabit today is truly or purely ‘British’. Our current world is one where so-called ‘patriotism’ serves as a convenient disguise for racism, islamophobia, and xenophobia. A world where Nigel Farage can stand on a political stage and proudly declare his ambitions to repeal the Human Rights Act of 1998.
Fascism today doesn’t look like it once did. It no longer needs dictators or uniforms; it thrives in parliamentary chambers, press releases, and populist slogans. In the UK, it hides behind the rhetoric of “taking our country back,” “protecting our borders,” and “speaking for the people.” Reform UK embodies this new face of the far right, a party built on the language of grievance, nostalgia, and fear. It claims to champion “freedom,” but its version of freedom is one where empathy is weakness and human rights are optional. Reform UK doesn’t shout about race, but it whispers about “culture.” It doesn’t call for exclusion, but it talks about “integration.” It uses the language of democracy to dismantle its spirit. It thrives on the failure of mainstream politics, turning disillusionment into division, convincing ordinary people that their enemy is immigration.
There is no doubt the UK is angry; it is a nation littered with incapable government officials and a prime minister who is easily backed into a cramped corner by those dominating the international stage. House prices are unfathomable, the job market is stagnant, salaries no longer match the rate of inflation - everything is wrong. Yet, I feel the need to remind the youth not to allow their frustrations to be scapegoated towards those who come to the UK for a better life. Accommodation, meals and a place to wash yourself are basic human rights. Asylum seekers aren't spending abundances of your tax money, the government is. The Government isn't on our side, and it’s certainly not on theirs. All these issues that are causing your frustration are down to poor leadership, not those escaping poverty, genocide, and torture. Reform will not heal your frustrations; it feeds on them. It takes your rightful anger and weaponises it, pointing it at neighbours instead of leaders, at the victims instead of the cause.
Farage's female agenda
Nigel Farage claims to champion the protection of women and young girls in this country, yet his cabinet includes MPs who have themselves violated UK laws designed to protect women. James McMurdock was convicted and imprisoned for assaulting an ex-girlfriend at Chelmsford Crown Court 20 years ago. In a response made to a journalist’s question at today's press conference (August 26th 2025), Farage claimed the majority of immigrants coming into this country are ‘young undocumented males who come from a different culture to ours, posing a threat to our young women and girls’. In studies released last year via the Department of Immigration (2024), net immigration to the UK was 431,000. At first, this seems like an unfathomable number, until you realise 69% of those were students or work-related purposes, thus boosting our economy and funding our universities. Circling back to this hollow statement of ‘young undocumented immigrants posing a threat to our young women and girls’. For the year 2023, for indictable offences of all kinds, male offenders from the White ethnic group represented 81% of convictions. Moreover, in a survey conducted and posted by the UK Government, white men were responsible for 88.04% domestic violence cases reported by those sixteen and over between April 2022 and April 2023.
This statement is not to disregard any victim of assault, rather to turn the viewing point to the corrupt nature of the government (and political figures) who decide to care about women's safety when it boosts their political agenda and the MET police who have and still do turn a blind eye to the majority of the 780,000 rape and sexual assaults that take place each year. If Farage were truly committed to the safety of women and girls, he would not have appointed to his cabinet an individual who has breached legislation designed to protect them.
The media, men & misogyny
The link between youth-dominated social media platforms such as TikTok and the growing support for the right is undeniable. The rise of red-pill content and the algorithmic normalisation of hardcore pornography are aiding this right-wing resurgence in the UK. Desensitisation to hatred and extremist rhetoric is bleeding into the minds of young people, influencing our political culture and voting systems like never before.
Recently, the UK government has unanimously decided to lower the voting age to include 16- and 17-year-olds in the upcoming 2029 election. Although multiple sources claim that young people tend to lean left politically, the growing exposure of young men to red pill content and hardcore pornography suggests a more complex picture. Such material not only promotes violence against women but also reinforces the notion of male superiority, fundamentally reshaping how many young men perceive gender and power and, increasingly, politics itself.
A Cambridge master’s dissertation by Georgia, who completed an MPhil in Gender Studies, examined how quickly right-wing content appears on TikTok. After 56 hours of observation, she found that it took just 30 minutes for an account posing as a young male to be shown overtly misogynistic and right-wing videos. Figures like Andrew Tate and Charlie Kirk dominate these algorithms, flooding online spaces with rhetoric about “alpha males” and “high-value men.” This digital ecosystem perpetuates the idea that women are objects for male consumption and that female value lies in male gratification. When such content is consumed for hours each day, often alongside explicit pornography, it’s unsurprising that studies show a correlation between exposure to this material and increased violent attitudes towards women.
What does this mean in today’s current political sphere?
Increasingly, young men express hostility toward women and girls, as explored in series such as Adolescence. Figures like Nigel Farage, who rely on scapegoating minorities and stoking public resentment toward asylum seekers, appeal to this growing demographic. Reform UK, under Farage’s leadership, thrives on grievance and exclusion. Its rhetoric of “preserving Britain” offers an emotional refuge for young men desensitised to violence and primed by online misogyny to equate dominance with political strength.
Britain is changing not through progress, but through a slow erosion of empathy. What we are witnessing is more than a shift to the right; it is a crisis of conscience. Farage’s hollow claims of protecting women, the government’s selective outrage, and the algorithmic radicalisation of young men reveal a nation that has mistaken cruelty for strength. Frustration with failing leadership, rising costs, and social decay is being manipulated and redirected toward the most vulnerable. Migrants become scapegoats, women become props for political agendas, and hatred becomes entertainment. Reform UK thrives on this disillusionment, feeding off anger while offering nothing in return. If Britain is losing itself, it is because compassion has become weakness and justice has been reduced to rhetoric. The real fight for Britain’s future isn’t between left and right, it’s between compassion and cruelty.