West Yorkshire makes the case: Mayor Tracy Brabin calls for a rethink on Brexit to unlock regional growth
“She’s spot on.”
Britain is sliding towards billionaire politics: Is Labour too timid to stop it?
Britain has long seen itself as more resistant to the corrosive effects of big money in politics, but recent trends suggest otherwise.
“Has the penny dropped?” Lee Anderson’s climate denial tweet sparks ridicule
“Those scientists, what are they like eh Lee? With their learning and studying and care for the planet when all they need is X and a selfie video…”
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Labour MP challenges Zia Yusuf’s ‘nonsense’ claims about climate change
‘This absolute nonsense that you come out with. You do need to actually look at the facts.’
Brian Leishman MP: ‘This government should lift people out of poverty’
After a year in Parliament, Leishman writes about how he’s been holding the Labour government to account.
Reform-run council puts forward ‘morally reprehensible’ motion to scrap climate emergency declaration
‘Reform are now doing their best to reverse the positive work we have been doing.’
Parliament will not be recalled for Donald Trump’s state visit and Farage isn’t happy about it
The Right is fuming that the government isn’t considering giving Trump the honour of addressing MPs and peers
Liz Truss and right-wing lobby group lose it over campaign to return Parthenon marbles
Truss is being mocked for claiming the Greek statues are part of “our national culture”
Councils push back against Reform UK ‘Doge’ unit’s attempts to access sensitive data
Lawyers have been hired to challenge Doge’s data grab
Woke-bashing of the week: Right-wing commentators take aim at ‘woke’ banknotes
Who appears on money has always been a political choice.
Right-wing media watch – When will they get over a minor band and start acknowledging Palestinian deaths?
While the British right-wing press continues its obsession with punk bands and protest chants, it remains astonishingly quiet about the devastating human toll in Gaza. Each day, Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, reports the growing death toll of Palestinian civilians, figures that rarely make it into the headlines of the Mail or the Sun.
Unions welcome plans to roll out family hubs across England
“Brilliant news.”
Right-wing media’s welfare myths exposed
Until the ‘benefit scrounger’ narrative is finally dismantled, facts will continue to take a back seat to headlines.