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Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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Woke bashing of the week: the perennial panic returns as Restore Trust takes another swing at the National Trust

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 September, 2025

Right on cue, is the right-wing media’s annual witch-hunt over the Trust’s alleged ‘wokeness.’

Right-wing media watch – Reform’s young TikTok adviser peddles dangerous misinformation in the Mail

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 September, 2025

That Reform finds value in this kind of narrative tells us everything we need to know about where the party, and its chosen influencers, want to take the country.

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“Nailed it!”: Mirror praised for ‘Trump deranged’ front page

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 September, 2025

Only the Mirror gave the speech the front-page treatment it deserved.

Fluid from a large concrete pipe on the beach creating flow patterns in the sand on a path to the sea.
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Tens of thousands sign ‘One Earth. One Team’ petition

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 September, 2025

The UK now faces dirtier rivers, more polluted air, and higher levels of pesticides in soil compared to many EU member states.

Right-Wing Watch

Left or right – who could unite first?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 September, 2025

While speculation about a right-wing pact to ensure that the Tories or Reform can win power is rampant, there’s little mention of any sort of progressive pact to save us from such a fate.

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Huge crowd gathers for Make Them Pay rally in London

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 September, 2025

“Our story is more powerful than the hatred we saw here last week. Our story places the blame with the billionaires, and we need to tell it loud and clear.”

Canary Wharf

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Prem Sikka
26 September, 2025

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg mocks Nigel Farage’s hopes of being PM on BBC Question Time

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2025

‘To demonise, particularly the Muslims, this is the sort of thing why we worry about Reform.’

Prime minister Keir Starmer giving a speech on Gaza

Keir Starmer says Donald Trump’s claim Sadiq Khan wants to bring in Sharia Law is ‘nonsense’

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2025

The Prime Minister has called Trump’s comments ‘nonsense’.

Andy Burnham

Cabinet minister dismisses Burnham leadership bid with brutal slapdown

Basit Mahmood
25 September, 2025

‘Our job now is to talk to the country, not to ourselves, about how we’re going to change the things that they care about.’

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