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Keir Starmer roasts Reform UK at PMQs over Russian bribes

Basit Mahmood
Today

The Prime Minister’s comments caused much laughter across the Commons, with Farage and his deputy Richard Tice looking annoyed.

Starmer

Reform councillor poses with far-right Homeland Party member who claims ‘black people can’t be Scottish’

Olivia Barber
Today

“One of Reform’s leading representatives in Scotland is keeping company with members of the fascist Homeland Party.”

Council sees ‘spike’ in complaints against councillors since Reform took control

Olivia Barber
Today

“It strikes me as a lack of trust in how the council is being run”

Reform UK

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Child poverty strategy likely to fail unless two-child limit goes, charity warns

Olivia Barber
3 March, 2025

The charity estimates that the two-child limit pushes another 109 children into poverty each day.

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Securonomics: Why Labour’s New Economic Model is Exactly What Britain Needs

Chris Worrall
3 March, 2025

If Britain is to regain its position as a world leader in innovation, industry, and growth, then it needs bold, intelligent economic thinking—not the tired slogans of economic nationalism.

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Musk meltdown: London tube ad mocks Tesla boss over falling share prices

Basit Mahmood
3 March, 2025

The tube ads show a graph with Tesla’s falling share price, along with a picture of Musk carrying out what was alleged to be a Nazi salute.

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UK universities poised to gain from Trump presidency

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

During Donald Trump’s first term, the number of international students enrolling in US universities declined each year.

Woke-bashing of the week – Freckleface Strawberry, the latest casualty in the war on books

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

The story, which follows a young girl learning to live with her freckles and her unique identity, has been removed from schools operated by the Department of Defense under the Trump administration.

Right-Wing Media Watch – Mail on Sunday’s incredulous frontpage assault on the ‘thought police’  

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

“It isn’t the thought police if she expressed those thoughts in writing and published that writing on social media.”

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Immigration key to solving Britain’s construction crisis – say experts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

‘The government has assumed restricting migrant workers will lead to higher wages and productivity but that doesn’t happen automatically.’

Right-Wing Watch

Corporate America’s MAGA makeover – will the UK follow suit?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

Resistance will require strong political leadership from progressive politicians in the UK and in Europe to withstand the hopelessly short term and contradictory bombast of Trumpian politics.

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As energy prices soar in Britain, Spain keeps bills low with renewable energy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 March, 2025

Overall costs of electricity, heating, cooling, water and waste disposal are 40 percent cheaper in Spain, where the cost of living is, on average, 26.5 percent lower than in the UK.

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Major new survey finds overwhelming support for UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme, including in Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson’s constituencies

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 March, 2025

‘This is the clearest evidence yet that an EU-UK Youth Mobility scheme is among the least controversial issues in the government’s relationship reset with the EU, even in places that elected a Reform UK member of parliament.’

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