5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate
Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy
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Right-Wing Media Watch – Why we should be afraid of Paul Marshall’s plan to fund new generation of UK journalists
His funding of a new crop of journalists raises fears that the political neutrality of journalism is under siege.
How the US right are silencing opposition – and could it happen here?
‘With liberal democracy under threat in the USA, we must now choose between the complicity of silence or engage in an open debate in support of our own values.’
Pro-Brexit Express falls for the bait of former Wetherspoons pub rebranding as The European
‘I’m hoping the irony will hit the spot.’
UK governments are failing to curb corporate tax abuses and leaving people to pay the price
Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.
Groups pull out of University antisemitism inquiry citing ‘loss of confidence’ in investigation
They argue there is a ‘lack of transparency’ over ‘who and what is being investigated’
Who is Karen Shore, Labour’s candidate in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election?
A by-election will be taking place to replace Mike Amesbury
Bombshell poll suggests Labour set to lose Runcorn and Helsby by-election to Reform UK
Labour are on track to come second
Reactions to Keir Starmer’s decision to scrap NHS England
Unions are unhappy about potential job losses while others are worried it could lead to further privatisation of the health service
‘Money for war, but for not the poor’: ex-Labour candidate hits out against welfare cuts
Faiza Shaheen said she was “upset and shocked” by how a Labour government is treating people on benefits as if they’re cheating.
Reform MP Lee Anderson accused of bullying in latest clash with ‘Stop Brexit Man’
‘This is a pattern of bullying and aggressive behaviour from Anderson’