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Reform’s first year running councils: ‘The atmosphere in the chamber has changed’

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Reform’s first year running councils seems to have been defined by a focus on ‘culture war’ issues

Nigel Farage gets heckled at London local election launch

LFF Live: How do we clean up politics? With the Good Law Project

LFF Reporter
24 April, 2026 (5 days ago)

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UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

‘Spring slaughter’: Exhausted NHS staff respond to Sunak’s statement

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 March, 2022

‘My hospital is full of Covid patients. I’m tired of being a nurse. My cupboards only have foodbank food. I have no petrol. I’m frightened to put the heating on.’

Shell

Shell accused of eyeing crude profit in possible Cambo oil field U-turn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 March, 2022

By re-entering the controversial oil development project, Shell would ‘stand to gain billions in the midst of wartime price hikes.’

Lord Michael Grade

Objectivity of appointment of Lord Grade as new Ofcom chair called into question

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 March, 2022

‘This says everything about our government. He’s white, male, ancient, pale, stale, anti-BBC, anti-Channel 4.’

Sana'a residential area destroyed in Yemen after an airstrike

Yemen: Seven years of the forgotten war

Benali Hamdache
26 March, 2022

Benali Hamdache writes on how the complexity of the war has allowed the UK government to get away with not using its power to bring peace, and to continue profiting from arm sales.

Rishi Sunak

Whinging Rishi Sunak ‘annoyed at the BBC’s coverage of his economic measures’

Basit Mahmood
25 March, 2022

He’s not happy at the way the BBC have focused on Universal Credit claimants

Net Zero

Wera Hobhouse MP: Local Government should be at the heart of the transition to Net Zero

Wera Hobhouse MP
25 March, 2022

‘More than half of the emissions cuts needed rely on people and businesses taking up low-carbon solutions – solutions around buildings, energy and transport – decisions that are made at a local and individual level.’

Protesters outside Oxford City Council campaigning against the sell off of the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC)

‘Downright dangerous’ – the latest healthcare sell-off

Liz Peretz
25 March, 2022

Plans are underway to sell-off the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre. But people are fighting back.

p &o

P&O chief exec admits firm broke the law yet insists he would make same decision again

Basit Mahmood
25 March, 2022

The P&O Ferries boss went on to reveal to MPs he is paid a basic salary of £325,000 a year.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch newsletter: Feeling very safe and online

John Lubbock
24 March, 2022

This week the government brought back its Online Safety Bill, but does Nadine Dorries know what an algorithm is?

Tufton Street think tank Migration Watch uses Ukraine crisis to attack other refugees

John Lubbock
24 March, 2022

Migration Watch has suggested that while Ukrainian refugees are worthy of protection, those arriving on boats are ‘scammers’.

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