Woke bashing of the week: Banning zoos and licencing dog owners: ‘Barking mad’ or sensible debate?
A closer look at the policy reveals a more nuanced, and legitimate, position than the headlines suggest.
Right-wing media watch: Fox News declares “victory” and “outs fake allies”… England and Spain
The episode illustrates a depressingly familiar pattern: when wars begin, sections of the right-wing media move quickly to celebrate military action and demand solidarity, while overlooking both the lessons of recent history and the civilians who end up paying the price.
The Telegraph’s ‘German’ takeover and why liberals may be celebrating too soon
The new buyer has a long and well-documented tendency to blur the line between journalism and right-wing politics.
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Why has devolution ground to a halt?
That’s a hammer blow to plans to deliver growth and to get power out of Whitehall and back into local communities.
5 Reform disasters this week: Your weekly round up of where it’s going wrong for Farage’s party
Whether it’s their actions in local government, or Nigel Farage’s latest scandal or what their candidates and members are up to, here’s where it’s gone wrong for Reform this week.
Elon Musk’s X could be banned in Britain over AI deepfakes
Ofcom’s powers under the Online Safety Act include asking the High Court to effectively ban offending companies.
Farage slammed for ‘parroting the Kremlin line’ over Ukraine troops stance
“Can we trust someone who is so keen to parrot the Kremlin line…?”
‘Reform don’t care about working class kids’: TUC slams Nigel Farage for opposing lifting of two-child cap
“We know what his real priorities are…Reform don’t care about working class kids or their families.”
Nigel Farage says Reform candidate who told David Lammy to ‘go home’ should apologise, but stops short of sacking him
Farage called the racial slur Chris Parry made about the deputy prime minister “over the top”
Reform councillor slammed for being ‘heartless’ over eviction of family from property
It shouldn’t surprise us that Reform aren’t concerned with renter’s rights, given that the party’s leader Farage opposed the Renters’ Rights Bill.
Nigel Farage took £10,000 gift from Gulf state
The Reform leader was gifted accommodation and passes to attend the Formula 1 in December
More Britons think Labour would be better at tackling the cost of living than Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
The public know that Farage and Reform, who openly call for a return to austerity and privatising vital services, are not the answer on the cost of living.
Reform U-turns on scrapping two-child benefit limit
Reform had promised to scrap the two-child benefit limit, but Farage says his party will now vote against lifting it