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How do we defeat Reform and the far right?

LFF Reporter
Yesterday

Hear from Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles at the first edition of LFF Live

A graphic advertising the LFF with Nick Lowles on February 10 at 6pm

Woke Bashing of the Week: Has UnHerd lost all shame? When ‘anti-woke’ turns into fat shaming

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

When you devote paragraphs to a writer’s body, clothes, and supposed visual offence, you forfeit the right to claim weight is beside the point.

Right-Wing Media Watch: The right runs scared about an Ed Miliband return

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Clark and others on the right appear genuinely alarmed by the prospect that Miliband could return to the very top of British politics, and they are doing everything they can to convince voters that his tenure as energy and net zero secretary would spell ruin for the country.

Latest Posts

Bus drivers strike
News

Abellio London bus drivers secure 18% pay rise

Hannah Davenport
14 February, 2023

End to long and ‘bitter’ dispute after London bus drivers accept pay offer and improved conditions

Rishi Sunak
News

Treasury spent £3,000 of taxpayers’ cash on fine art photographs while the rest of us are told to ‘tighten our belts’

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Spending on government-issued “credit cards”, also known as Government Procurement Cards, has risen 70% since 2010.

Rishi Sunak at the dispatch box at PMQs
News

Rishi Sunak’s claim that Just Stop Oil ‘bankrolls the Labour Party’ is proven to be false

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Sunak made the claim at PMQs

Rachel Reeves
Opinion

Labour must use its growth mission to reshape Britain

Tom Collinge
13 February, 2023

‘The question of how we raise the funds for our ambitious plans will be absolutely critical to the success of a Starmer government.’

Lee Anderson
News

Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson slammed ‘over link to white supremacists’

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Anderson is facing further condemnation for his links to Nazi-supporting members of a scooter club.

Pontins

Daily Mail and Express report fake asylum seeker hotel costs

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

With a media that doesn’t hold back in printing anti-immigration stories designed to fan the flames of hatred, using the most inflated figures possible to report on asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK, comes as no surprise.

Tony Abbott

Government refuses to sack Australian trade advisor Tony Abbott for joining climate-sceptic think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

‘Talking tough on climate action while filling your Board of Trade with people like Abbott is a dismal signal to the world about Britain’s climate leadership.’

Right-Wing Watch

Can the Tories win the next general election?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

For a government limping along under the rule of its fifth prime minister in six years, drenched in sleaze and infighting, conventional wisdom says surely the Tories can’t survive the next general election. But then this is politics, and anything can happen.

Report finds Brexit failings are leading cause of small boats crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

A new academic report identifies Brexit and other UK government failings as the underlying cause of the increase in people making the perilous journey across the English Channel.

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices
News

Government urged to scrap 20 percent increase in energy bills

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

Money saving expert Martin Lewis has joined calls urging the government to postpone the planned April 1 hike.

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