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Housing activist exposes truth about ‘landlords leaving the market’ over Renters’ Right Act

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

Landlord groups have claimed that many are leaving the market because of over-regulation.

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

Your Party to focus on backing independent candidates in the upcoming local elections

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

The new left-wing outfit won’t be fielding its own candidates

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Your Party Conference

Reform UK candidate expresses admiration for Oswald Mosley and wants to keep migrants in slave labour

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

These are the kinds of people Reform is putting up for election.

Arnold-Tabor

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Banning vapes should be just the beginning. The government must take further action to reduce waste

Eloise Sacares
9 June, 2025

The Labour government must supercharge waste reduction with its upcoming circular economy strategy, and deliver practical steps that can make a big difference to industry, consumers and the environment.

Kemi Badenoch being interviewed by the BBC's Chris Mason
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Kemi Badenoch asks if Liz Truss is still in the Conservative Party in awkward interview

Olivia Barber
9 June, 2025

‘Is [Liz Truss] still in the party? You tell me!’

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LBC caller slams Reform UK for sending Kent County Council into ‘absolute freefall’

Olivia Barber
9 June, 2025

‘If anyone would like to know what their f​​uture government [would be] like, I think they should come down to Kent and see that Kent County Council is on the verge of imploding.’

Reform MP Richard Tice speaking on Sky News
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Richard Tice humiliated in car crash interview with Reform branded ‘chaotic’ after Chairman’s dramatic exit and rapid return

Basit Mahmood
9 June, 2025

“It doesn’t look very professional, does it, for your chair to be in – then out – then back in again?”,

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Homelessness in Northern Ireland more than doubles over past decade

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 June, 2025

Rising rents, stagnating wages, and mounting pressure on housing benefit are all contributing to the crisis.

Jacinda Ardern

Woke-bashing of the week – Jacinda Ardern becomes the latest target of the ‘post-woke’ movement

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 June, 2025

Rather than wielding authority for its own sake, Ardern emphasises the importance of empathy, principled leadership, and purpose-driven politics. It’s a vision that stands in depressing contrast to the reactionary impulses of the so-called ‘post-woke’ movement.

Right-wing media watch – Bring back Boris! Conservative media flirts with fantasy as Tories flounder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

It makes you wonder if the tabloid tussle over Johnson’s return is just a ploy for clicks. In any case, would Johnson want to a second coming? He seems pretty busy making money, and babies.

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Express begrudgingly concedes Brexit reset benefits, not that you’d know it from the headline

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

‘Many readers won’t get past the headline.’

Right-Wing Watch

Nativism: The real reason behind the right’s newfound concern for child poverty

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

The benefits that Reform champions are largely reserved for those who conform to the right’s ideal of the ‘traditional family,’ that is married, heterosexual, and supportive of conservative values.

NHS worker conditions
News

Radiology delays linked to ‘unsustainable’ NHS privatisation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

If current trends continue, annual spending on outsourcing could exceed £400 million by 2028, enough to fund 3,389 full-time consultant radiologists.

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