Right Now!
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Right Now! was a bimonthly British political magazine. It reflects right wing, nationalist views. Past associations have included journalist Michael Gove, philosopher Antony Flew and the economic policy expert Alfred Sherman. It ceased publication in December 2006.
It was launched in autumn 1993 as a quarterly publication. Its final editor was Derek Turner. The publisher was the journalist Taki Theodoracopolous.
The magazine featured interviews with and articles by many leading politicians, thinkers and writers. These include Nick Griffin of the British National Party and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the Front National, as well as Roger Scruton, Pat Buchanan, Peter Brimelow, Frederick Forsyth, Charles Moore, Garry Bushell, Alain de Benoist, Thomas Fleming, and Samuel Francis.
Prominent Conservative politicians who have contributed to, or been interviewed by, Right Now! include Norman Tebbit, Ann Widdecombe, John Redwood, Teddy Taylor, Teresa Gorman and Bill Cash. The magazine also featured arts coverage and cultural criticism. There was a regular series called "Writers of the Right" covering figures such as Douglas Jerrold.
[edit] Political fallout
The magazine was singled out 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 called for the magazine to be shut down.
Andrew Hunter, a former Conservative MP who defected to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, was removed from Iain Duncan Smith's campaign to lead the Conservative Party because of his patronage of Right Now!. Hunter withdrew his support for the magazine after it printed a series of allegedly homophobic advertisements for the Conservative Democratic Alliance, with which the magazine is closely linked.
[edit] Closure
The magazine ceased publication in 2006. The Right Now! website states that readers may wish to instead read Derek Turner's new journal, The Quarterly Review.
