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Boriswave, fighting-age men, cultural Marxism: how the far right is changing how we speak

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Why are the online far right so successful in shaping our political language? With Dr Robert Topinka. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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1:03.5

This press conference is about stopping the Boris wave of a minimum of 800,000 people getting indefinite leave to remain at vast cost of this country over the decades to come.

1:09.5

Yes, there are historic...

1:10.6

Another day, another Reform UK press conference.

1:14.6

Nigel Farage, yet again, banging on about immigration.

1:18.8

This time, pledging to abolish indefinite right to remain.

1:22.3

The right accrued by long-term immigrants to live and work in the UK permanently.

1:27.1

But this time there was one phrase, a pretty new one, that he was keen to shoehorn in at every

1:32.0

opportunity.

1:32.9

It's actually the age profile that worries us about the Boris wave in some ways more than anything

1:37.4

else.

1:39.2

The Boris wave.

1:41.2

You know which Boris.

1:43.7

This is not what Brexit voters wanted.

1:46.0

We're an election after election after election they were promised that net migration would come down to tens of thousands a year

1:53.0

and we learn it was up to in the worst year a million, although we haven't yet got the revisions.

1:58.0

What you perhaps don't know is that Boris Wave is not simply a jaunty description of a sociological

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