Human rights are the ultimate embodiment of what it means to be a just society and, as such, they have acquired the status of master narrative. However, the human rights doctrine has come under pressure from resistant narratives that span the entire political spectrum. Focusing on the presence of right-leaning counter narratives in the UK national press, this chapter seeks to interrogate how ‘counter’ these oppositional narratives are. Considering their underlying criticism of the welfare state, immigration, multiculturalism and equality more generally, such narratives are often hard to reconcile with the interests of oppressed and marginalised groups. In conceptualising dominant and counter narratives, sufficient consideration should therefore be given to the possibility that narratives challenging the status quo are not invariably progressive.