Right Now!
Right Now! was a right-wing conservative British political magazine, which was published from 1993 to 2006. The magazine also featured arts coverage and cultural criticism. It proclaimed itself a magazine of "politics, ideas and culture".
It was initially edited by Michael Harrison, a member of the Conservative Monday Club, and then from 1995 until closure by Derek Turner. Contributing editors included Christopher Luke, and Allan Robertson - Chairman of the London Swinton Circle (both now deceased), and Stuart Millson who had been on the Executive Council of the Monday Club, was a co-founder of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus, an activist in the Western Goals Institute, and a leading light in the Conservative Democratic Alliance. Other interviews with and articles by figures including Professors Antony Flew and Roger Scruton, Pat Buchanan, Peter Brimelow, the famous author Frederick Forsyth, Charles Moore (editor of The Spectator), Garry Bushell (a leading journalist for The Sun newspaper), Nick Griffin, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, Professors Richard Lynn, J. Philippe Rushton, and Alain de Benoist, Thomas Fleming, Samuel T. Francis and C. B. Liddell.
Prominent Conservative politicians who contributed to, or were interviewed by, Right Now! included Norman Tebbit, Ann Widdecombe, John Redwood, Bill Cash and the late Teddy Taylor and Teresa Gorman.
The magazine was mentioned by then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in 2000 in an attack on then Conservative Party leader William Hague's inability to contain "extremists" within the party; Cook criticised Hague for not shutting the magazine down[1], something virtually unheard of in the UK and an indicator of socialist totalitarian thinking.
Andrew Hunter, a former Conservative Member of Parliament who defected to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, was a long-time Patron of the magazine. Hunter ceased links with the magazine in 2002, following pressure from party leader Iain Duncan Smith, stating disagreement with an advert in the magazine for the Conservative Democratic Alliance which was critical of the Conservative Party.[2]
The editor, Derek Turner, who was an authority on Samuel Pepys, became tired of politics, and the magazine ceased publication. He moved out of London to spend a career in authoring novels. His books include Sea Changes (2012), A Modern Journey (2019) and Edge of England (2023).
References
- ↑ Hague exploits fear, warns Cook, The Guardian, 11 September 2000
- ↑ MP severs tie with far-right magazine, The Independent, 17 May 2002
