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Thames Water fine reprieve sparks outrage over “rewarding failure”

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“This nonsense must be, should be, has to be and will be opposed.”

A picture of the Thames Water logo

Woke-bashing of the week: The great Easter ‘outrage’ that wasn’t

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

It’s a depressingly familiar pattern, a carefully framed image, paired with a provocative narrative, travels faster than the truth, especially when it taps into pre-existing grievances about so-called ‘wokeness.’

Right-wing media watch – War, what war? The Express chooses Farage fan adulation over reality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Brown’s account of Farage’s campaign stops borders on the reverential. Even anonymous praise from a party candidate, “he’s going to change everything for the better,” is relayed without challenge.

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Kemi Badenoch slammed for being ‘on the side of oil and gas giants’

Olivia Barber
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The Tory leader will use a speech today to call for an end to the windfall tax and to lift the ban on new oil and gas licences

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Tories call for watchdog to probe Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ data requests

Olivia Barber
13 June, 2025

‘I believe that the scale of such unauthorised data transfers across local government is a cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’

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New Reform UK director Charlton Edwards shared conspiracy theory and far right content online

Basit Mahmood
13 June, 2025

Reform’s mask slips again…

Kemi Badenoch on Sky News
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Kemi Badenoch claims Tories delivered Brexit bus pledge of £350 million a week for NHS

Olivia Barber
13 June, 2025

The NHS did receive more funding, but it had nothing to do with leaving the EU

Zia Yusuf
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BBC Question Time audience member roasts Reform as ‘The Comedy Club’ with Zia Yusuf looking on

Basit Mahmood
13 June, 2025

“It’s not whether Reform will end up in the comedy club – they are the comedy club,”

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Firm linked to Tory peer ‘should pay back £122 million for faulty covid PPE’

Olivia Barber
12 June, 2025

A PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone supplied faulty surgical gowns

Rachel reeves
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Dawn Butler MP: To truly deliver on the promise of economic growth the government needs a proper plan for London

Dawn Butler
12 June, 2025

Levelling up is indeed vital, but it should not result in the levelling down of London

Wilko
News

10,000 ex-Wilko workers will get £2 million pay out after GMB union wins legal case

Basit Mahmood
12 June, 2025

The case was taken on by GMB on behalf of thousands of members who lost their job when the discount store went into administration.

Zia Yusuf
News

Zia Yusuf says he wants to stand as MP just days after rejoining Reform UK

Olivia Barber
12 June, 2025

The former Reform UK chair quit the party a week ago saying working to get them elected was no longer “a good use of my time”

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement
News

Rachel Reeves roasts Nigel Farage for backing Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget

Basit Mahmood
12 June, 2025

“His party has been in parliament for less than a year and yet already they have racked up £80bn of unfunded commitments. They are simply not serious.”

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