Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Tim Martin ridiculed for urging pubs to back Reform UK
“Brexiter Tim Spoons wants to cut child benefits so someone can save £1 if they drink 20 pints in one of his pubs…”
Portugal defies Europe’s rightward drift as socialist António José Seguro wins presidency
Seguro’s victory was widely interpreted as a rebuke to the far right and a reaffirmation of Portugal’s democratic and constitutional traditions.
Is Farage’s ‘teenage crush’ on Putin, Starmer’s trump electoral card?
For a Union Jack-wrapping politician, who casts himself as the embodiment of national pride, being accused of admiring a tyrant who threatens European democracy, strikes at the heart of Farage’s brand.
‘Brussels’ Brexit revenge’? No, this is just what Brexit looks like
The EU is not punishing the UK, it’s treating the UK as what it chose to become, a third country.
Right-Wing Media Watch: Freedom to what, exactly? The Daily Express and the Brexit fantasy
“WHAT FREEDOM? IT GAVE US NOTHING GAHHHHHHHH."
Woke-bashing of the week – The FT, woke? Surely not!
The author argues the FT has shifted from a “candid elite forum” and the “best of the British free-thinking tradition,” to a “timid, risk-averse rag."