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Reform’s Richard Tice facing calls to be sacked over firm’s £91,000 unpaid tax bill

Basit Mahmood
Today

Will he now resign?

Richard Tice

Reform candidate was twice disciplined by Tories over ‘racist comments’

Basit Mahmood
Today

None of his alleged past comments seem to have worried Reform, who were more than happy to take him on as a candidate.

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Thames Water fine reprieve sparks outrage over “rewarding failure”

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

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

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Nadhim Zahawi is the latest Tory to defect to Reform UK

Olivia Barber
12 January, 2026

In old social media posts, Zahawi said he would be afraid to live in the UK if Farage was prime minister

Donald Trump
Opinion

The government is in denial over the US

Natalie Bennett
12 January, 2026

Green Party peer Natalie Bennett argues that “the West” as a unit with shared values and principles is dead

Reform Mayoral Candidate Chris Parry
News

Reform UK mayoral candidate finally ‘apologises’ for David Lammy should ‘go home’ comment

Olivia Barber
12 January, 2026

Chris Parry says his post was intended ‘ironically’

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Majority of Thames Water customers want utility to be nationalised, new polling shows

Olivia Barber
12 January, 2026

Customers believe that Ofwat should reject the creditors’ deal and put Thames Water into special administration

Laila Cunningham, Reform's London Mayor candidate

Reform’s London Mayor candidate Laila Cunningham has had several businesses struck off

Olivia Barber
12 January, 2026

Cunningham has had multiple businesses struck off for failing to comply with companies law

Woke bashing of the week: Who gets to be a “national treasure”? Brigitte Bardot and the Telegraph’s selective war on ‘wokeness’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 January, 2026

It is apparently acceptable for Brigitte Bardot to spend decades whipping up racial hatred and still be celebrated as a national icon, perhaps helped by glamour, distance, and nostalgia. But it is unacceptable for Gary Lineker to voice contemporary moral objections to cruelty and injustice.

Right-Wing Media Watch: Newspapers in meltdown over ‘Sadiq Khan’s’ New Year fireworks

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 January, 2026

As ever, responsibility for this alleged civic misery was pinned on a single figure – Sadiq Khan.

Trump
News

Trump’s assault on LGBTQ+ programmes ‘undoubtedly’ hitting UK charities, warns Stonewall

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 January, 2026

Stonewall’s corporate donations more than halved over the past year.

Brexit
News

Britons now more pro-EU than the French or Italians

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 January, 2026

2026 has begun much as 2025 ended, with bleak polling that confirms Britain’s deep and unresolved disillusionment with Brexit, a frustration now shared across the European Union.

Right-Wing Watch

The ‘holy war’: How the far right is trying to hijack Christianity

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 January, 2026

Does the far right’s capture of a debased Christianity matter in the UK, where religion holds far less sway than in the US? Given America’s superpower status, and the reluctance of global leaders to challenge Trump, it should concern us all.

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