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Zack Polanski speaking at Green Party conference
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Green Party sets sights on targeting trade union members disillusioned with Labour

Olivia Barber
30 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Zack Polanski is set to make keynote speeches at several trade union conferences

Zia Yusuf

Reform’s Zia Yusuf in meltdown when asked about growing number of candidate scandals

Basit Mahmood
30 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

The right-wing party has lost at least 67 candidates since May 2025,

Nigel Farage gets heckled at London local election launch
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Nigel Farage gets repeatedly heckled at Reform event in London

Olivia Barber
30 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

‘We will not allow Nigel Farage’s hate to exist unopposed in London’

James_Orr

Reform’s policy chief shared stage with ‘white nationalist’ politician

Basit Mahmood
30 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

That Reform’s policy chief feels comfortable sharing a stage with someone who holds such disgraceful views speaks volumes of the kind of values Farage is comfortable with.

Matt Goodwin, Reform's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election
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Police found ‘no evidence’ of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election after Reform complaint

Olivia Barber
30 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

‘Farage is a bad loser’

Woke-bashing of the week: GB News turns culture-war punditry into ‘literally insight’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Well, it is GB News, what did we expect?

Right-Wing Media Watch – ‘Thanks for the publicity’: Care4Calais brilliantly reclaims a Daily Mail ‘hit piece’ 

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

The approach follows a well-worn pattern in the right-wing British press. Humanitarian action reframed as controversy, aid depicted as incentive, and Muslim identity positioned as an additional source of tension.

News

Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.

News

Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.

Right-Wing Watch
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From lockdown to legitimacy: how pandemic fringe politics pushed populism into the mainstream

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

The longer-term political consequences of the pandemic’s spread of fringe beliefs are visible in the evolution of Reform UK. Its anti-lockdown positioning provided Nigel Farage with a means to reconnect with disaffected voters and reassert his political relevance, much as he had done, with notable success, during the Brexit campaign.

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