A terrifying prospect: Reform pledge to create ICE-style agency
Reform has gone full Trump
Meet ASLEF’s new general secretary, Dave Calfe
Dave Calfe speaks with Left Foot Forward about fully nationalising the railway, the Employment Rights Act and the Birmingham bin strikes
Reform’s new head of policy has some pretty awful views on Ukraine and Putin
James Orr has a range of worrying, radical views about Russia and Ukraine
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Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s holy snitch hotline!
It makes you nostalgic for the days when it was just Fox News and of course its UK copycats – GB News and the Daily Mail – which tuned their violins for the annual “Easter cancelled” and “War on Christmas” symphony, where the absence of a nativity scene becomes a constitutional crisis.
Ending poverty could save Britain £75bn a year, says charity
Trussell is calling for an “essentials guarantee” to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.
Kemi Badenoch’s call for ‘massive Margaret Thatcher statue outside Parliament’ met with brutal mockery
“Good idea—the pigeons need something new to shit on.”
Where did the Greens win big in the local elections?
The Greens gained 44 seats
Right-wing media watch – Mail reaches for the trans panic playbook
In faithfully amplifying Lord Ashcroft’s latest attempt to cause political embarrassment, through the ever-reliable culture war wedge, the Mail doesn’t just play dirty, it plays painfully predictable.
Lessons from Canada: Is it time to stop trying to ape populist politicians?
Rather than courting the right, Carney gained votes by uniting the left, aided in part by Donald Trump’s unwelcome interference. Labour, by contrast, risks alienating its progressive support by chasing the right-wing vote. In doing so, it offers little that inspires, let alone galvanises.
‘Plate-gate!’ – Pro-Brexit media in uproar over DVLA’s banning of ‘Brexit’ number plates
“I see they have reverted to their hysterical hyperbole again. Silly. There are much more important issues than number plates at the moment.”
Breaking: Reform UK win control of first-ever council in Staffordshire
The Tories’ held Staffordshire County Council since 2009
Labour mayor warns Keir Starmer to listen to voters after narrow win over Reform
‘The results here tonight demonstrate that they need to be listening to the man, woman and businesses on the street’
Reform UK wins Runcorn and Helsby by-election with smallest majority in history
They won by just 6 votes after a recount