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Why a Tory-Reform pact suits the right-wing press more than either party – for now

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Editors may relish the drama, but behind the scenes they must be tearing their hair out as the feud escalates. “Stop fighting each other and end the Labour nightmare,” pleaded the Daily Mail, like a weary parent begging quarrelling children to behave.

Right-Wing Watch

More Scots would back independence if Reform entered government, poll suggests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“Given support for independence remains tied, Brexit alone is clearly not a catalyst that can itself prompt a surge in support for separation — but, on the basis of this poll, the advent of Nigel Farage as Prime Minister may well be.”

A photo of a Scottish independence protest with a Saltire flagm with the word "yes" imposed on it

MPs across the political spectrum condemn Trump’s claims about NATO troops

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

“The president was wrong to diminish the role of Nato troops, including British forces in Afghanistan”

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Voting Ballot Box

Race equality groups condemn vote to introduce voter ID as ‘voter suppression’

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2022

327 MPs voted in favour of introducing photo ID at elections, including 85 Tories who voted against the need for Covid passes to gain entry into nightclubs and big events.

Children living in poverty

UK poverty report: 1.8 million children are growing up in deep poverty

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2022

There are 500,000 more children living in significant poverty in 2019/20 compared to 2011/12

Nigel Farage on GB News

Mainly foreign owned GB News to play the national anthem every day

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2022

The same GB News that is largely foreign owned, with its start up cash down to two foreign investors.

The Tory government’s problems on trade just got worse

Tony Burke
17 January, 2022

‘The US snubbed them on the issue of ending tariffs on UK imported steel and aluminium’

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
17 January, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Gavin Williamson

Boris Johnson hands out gongs to people he sacked so he can keep skeletons in the closet

Basit Mahmood
17 January, 2022

John Whittingdale and Nick Gibb, who were also sacked from government, will also be handed knighthoods to ‘keep them quiet, its been reported.

Protest bill

Natalie Bennett: The policing bill represents the greatest attack on peaceful dissent in living memory

Natalie Bennett
17 January, 2022

‘The government is trying to take away people’s agency and power, but there’s a growing determination – and organisation – determined not to let that happen’.

Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries turns attention to destroying the BBC in bid to save Boris Johnson

Basit Mahmood
17 January, 2022

Dorries said that “state-run TV has had its day”.

Child poverty in the UK

Race inequality: Black children twice as likely to grow up in poverty as white children

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 January, 2022

As the cost-of-living crisis deepens with millions at risk of being plunged into fuel poverty, research shows a stark racial divide between children growing up in poverty.

Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid

Another Eton mess: Politicians with privileged backgrounds under fire in wake of ‘BYOB’ garden party scandal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 January, 2022

Can a privileged upbringing and education actually be a handicap to effective leadership rather than an advantage?

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