THE POLITICAL right and its attendant conservative populism dominates British media outlets and the political terrain within England in particular, and GB News symbolises the massive right-wing “anti-woke” backlash that we have witnessed recently, particularly since the Black Lives Matter movement.

It represents an updated version, or equivalent to, the familiar and well-worn tropes of anti-political correctness of previous years.

For a long time, it has been a social and political theme of the right to attack by projecting a sense of being under attack and thereby reasserting dominant ruling-class hegemony. Familiar themes — or rather fantasies — and tropes are wheeled out such as “common sense” and the “ordinary person on the street,” which are positioned as being under attack from an aggressive sense of moral modern political correctness and inclusivity.