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Reform leader admits disgraceful adverts about Anas Sarwar were a mistake

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Reform’s social media advert  featuring Anas Sarwar was slammed last year as “blatantly racist”.

Reform Scotland

Campaigners urge Keir Starmer to ‘stand up to Trump’ and stop being complicit in the illegal attacks on Iran

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

“The UK should be taking a leaf out of Spain’s book and standing up strongly against bullies in defence of international law.”

Keir Starmer announces that the US will be able to use UK military bases to strike Iran

Reform accused of free speech hypocrisy after journalist blocked from attending manifesto launch

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

An investigative journalist has been denied a press pass for the event today

Nigel Farage responds to school racism allegations

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Right-Wing Media Watch: Freedom to what, exactly? The Daily Express and the Brexit fantasy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

“WHAT FREEDOM? IT GAVE US NOTHING GAHHHHHHHH.”

News

What is UpScrolled and why are progressives flocking to it?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

“I watched first-hand as meaningful stories disappeared from feeds, while harmful disinformation thrived.”

News

From ‘deeply uncomfortable’ to Dubai darling: Farage flip-flops on UAE Telegraph bid

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

His change of tone comes as Reform seeks to raise funds and boost its political profile among wealthy British expatriates in the Gulf.

Right-Wing Watch

The Epstein files and the right’s ‘selective transparency’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Even the young women and children who suffered because of the egos and sexual appetites of these powerful men are increasingly marginalised, and certainly the obscure source of Epstein’s wealth becomes lost in the psycho drama of media coverage. 

A photo of Lee Anderson at a Reform UK conference in Leicester
News

Lee Anderson reminded of his own political defections, after post asking if Oswald Mosley was a Labour MP

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

“As I understand it Mosley dumped his Labour tendencies when the world of fascism beckoned – remind you of anyone 30p…?”

An image showing bank notes and pound coins
Opinion

National Insurance is a regressive tax that hits the less well-off hardest

Prem Sikka
6 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Compared to income tax, national insurance contributions attract little sustained scrutiny even though they provide large amounts to the public purse.

Donald Trump
Opinion

America on the cusp: phones vs fascism

Claire Jones
6 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

We are watching a US inflexion point, where citizen action is confronting state violence and hardening authoritarianism. Where will it lead?

Zack Polanski speaking in a Green Party political broadcast
Opinion

Zack Polanski Learned What Starmer Refuses To: Every Good Story Needs a Villain

India Thorogood
6 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Labour is failing to make a compelling case against the far-right, argues progressive campaigns adviser India Thorogood

BBC Question Time audience member slams Reform's immigration policies
News

BBC Question Time audience applauds young woman’s scathing criticism of Reform’s immigration policy

Olivia Barber
6 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

“I think your party especially isn’t giving me much to be proud of”

dan thomas

Reform slammed after appointing former Tory who was head of London council as party leader in Wales

Basit Mahmood
6 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Dan Thomas led Barnet council between 2019 and 2022, when the north London council was seized by Labour, and defected to Farage’s Reform party last summer. 

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