The UK Conservative Party has faced numerous accusations of spreading misinformation, misleading the public, and even telling outright lies. Below are some of the most notable examples, based on historical context up to October 2023, where the party or its members have been caught bending—or breaking—the truth. Brexit: The £350 Million NHS Lie The Claim: During the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign, backed by prominent Tories like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, plastered a campaign bus with the message: “We send the EU £350 million a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead.” The Reality: The claim was a blatant falsehood. It ignored the UK’s rebate, which significantly reduced the amount sent to the EU, and the fact that much of the money was returned through EU funding for UK projects. The UK Statistics Authority called the claim “misleading.” The Fallout: After the referendum, Johnson admitted it was a “mistake” to use the figure, but the damage was done. The promise of extr...

  The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine have exposed deep contradictions in how the international community responds to war, human rights abuses, and violations of international law. Western governments have rushed to arm and defend Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression, while Palestinians have faced decades of occupation, siege, and military violence with little meaningful intervention. The difference in response is not incidental — it reflects a carefully structured global order where strategic interests, geopolitical power, and political influence dictate outcomes far more than moral consistency or international law. To understand why this double standard persists, we need to examine the deeper roots of these conflicts in colonialism and its enduring legacy. While formal colonialism may have ended with the collapse of European empires in the mid-20th century, the political, economic, and military structures it created have not disappeared. Colonialism has simply evolved into a m...

Across continents and centuries, one depressing magic trick keeps performing itself. Whenever people in power ( or those trying to get into power) feel even the slightest tremor under their feet, they reflexively point to the left and go, “Start with them, they’re always a safe warmup act.” The scenery changes, the costumes change, but the instinct stays as reliable as a fire alarm with a dying battery. As historian Timothy Snyder observes in On Tyranny , “The symbol of the twentieth century is the circle of people who agree to perform a lie. The symbol of the twenty-first century is the circle of people who agree to disregard the victim.” He may as well have added a footnote saying “and watch who gets cast as the victim first.” It is almost always the left. History does not even bother to hide it. In the United States, the Palmer Raids of 1919–1920 saw thousands of anarchists and immigrant communists rounded up and deported. Historian Adam Hochschild notes this set the tone, showi...