By now, it has become a joke. It almost seems like every time a conservative is mentioned in Pravda, they are labeled "far right."
Liz Cheney and any Never Trumper are exempt from this rule, as are Republicans Senators who vote against Trump. But otherwise, if you are a conservative of any stripe, you are labeled as Nazi-adjacent.
Being a bit sensitized to this trend because it is part of my job to monitor what Pravda does to brainwash people, I have also kept an eye out for mentions of anybody out there being "far left." And now that the Democrats are routinely electing communists and "Democratic Socialists," I have yet to see any of these politicians labeled as such, and in fact have only run across the term once in the Pravda media.
Antifa isn't even characterized as "far left." In fact, most media outlets deny that it even exists. It is instead some nebulous idea or something.
But we have now reached the stage where the BBC is labeling feminists who are not entirely on board with alphabet ideology as "far right," and they have invented the term "far right feminists" to explain why a crowd of radicals beat a man there to protect them as they protested.
I’m sorry what?
— Duncan (@DuncanHenry78) February 18, 2026
Seriously BBC? What?? https://t.co/D8QBlv7RIC pic.twitter.com/WbCf2INo7k
It's no surprise that any group challenging the alphabet people feel they need security. They certainly know that the crazy trans activists are a violent bunch, and know just as well that the police will almost certainly not intervene to protect them when they inevitably get attacked. (Ask Riley Gaines what it is like to be held hostage on a university campus where the administration praises the offenders.)
Nine people have been arrested in France following an investigation into the murder of a far-right nationalist student by suspected militants from the far-left.
Those detained include a parliamentary assistant for a deputy from the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) party.
Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student, died in hospital on Saturday - two days after being beaten and kicked about the head by a gang of masked young men in Lyon.
It happened after a small demonstration by far-right feminists - who Deranque was supposed to be helping protect - at the city's Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences-Po.
The BBC story doesn't even cover the reason why these women and this guy, trying to protect them, were attacked. You have to parse it out that they were "gender critical," which of course places them well outside the Overton Window for lefties. He was beaten to death because he was protecting them from trans activists.
It is true that this is the one Pravda story that I have read where the term "far left" was used, but it was used only to emphasize that this was a dispute between whackos on both sides, rather than between feminists who don't want men leering at them in locker rooms and radical transgender activists.
And...he worked for a political party that challenges (from the left) the Approved™ left-leaning parties, and the establishment would like to see them taken down a peg. So the "far left" smear will be electorally useful for the dominant left parties.
The most striking news is that among the nine in custody is Jacques-Elie Favrot, a young man who until now has been employed as parliamentary assistant at the National Assembly in Paris for a deputy from LFI.
The murder is putting huge pressure on LFI, on its 70 MPs, and on its veteran leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is a likely contender in next year's presidential election.
On Sunday, Mélenchon said his party had "nothing to do with this story. Those who accuse us are committing a libel.
Make sense now?
Adjectives in Pravda stories are not meant to be descriptive, but prescriptive, telling you what to think. Notice how there is little information about why the "far right" feminists were protesting—you have to guess, of course. And they leave out WHY the "far left" activists beat a man to death—opposing trans ideology.
The goal was to make the center-left parties look good, as they stand for sanity, while the "far right" and "far left" are violent extremists. So when the next election comes, remember who to vote for.
The icing on the cake? This took place...you guessed it...at an academic institution. The Institute of Political Studies (IEP). You know, the places where radicals are cultivated in the first place.
It was not so long ago that the BBC was the most trusted news service in the world, and I suppose it is still riding on a reputation that it no longer deserves with many people.
But its credibility has eroded dramatically over the past few years, and I wouldn't be surprised if the movement to eliminate the TV licenses that fund it gains even more steam.
Let's hope so.
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