My weird night with the New Right

This is the second London conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship .

It's at the ExCel Centre in London ’s Docklands , and attending the conference feels a lot like waiting for three days at an airport full of the richest people you have ever met.

The actual politics feel a bit dated, but real-world provocations and proposals are mostly eschewed, to speak in the abstract.

YouTuber Mark Meechan shot to fame in 2018 after getting fined for teaching his pug to do a Nazi salute.

Now people are talking about his promotion from influencer to doorman in hushed, reverent tones.

Several people are wearing “MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN” hats.

The right-of-centre establishment is still an establishment, and a fairly smug one.

But its Reaganite orientation has left space for an underground group of class-conscious right-wingers.

It's not clear how much these slight young things truly have in common with their supposed leaders.