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Britons now more pro-EU than the French or Italians

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

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.

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

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

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.

Right-Wing Watch

Darren Grimes mocked over false claims M&S staff are ‘forced’ to wear pronoun badges

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“I’m a regular shopper at M&S and have seen no evidence of this. Perhaps you could supply some, rather than a lame third hand anecdote.”

A photo of Darren Grimes, former GB News presenter, who is now a Reform UK councillor

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Unions welcome plans to roll out family hubs across England

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 July, 2025

“Brilliant news.”

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Right-wing media’s welfare myths exposed

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2025

Until the ‘benefit scrounger’ narrative is finally dismantled, facts will continue to take a back seat to headlines.

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Charity begins on the right? £28m funnelled to right-wing think-tanks

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2025

These groups have capitalised on the generous tax breaks afforded to charities, allowing wealthy backers to support politically charged agendas while shielding their identities from public scrutiny.

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Jake Berry’s defection to Reform met with ridicule and criticism

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2025

“Ah, yes, Jake Berry, the Boris Johnson/Liz Truss acolyte who said “Can’t afford to eat? Just get a better paid job.”

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Taming corporations is the key issue of our times

Prem Sikka
11 July, 2025

To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.

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Rupert Lowe under investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog

Olivia Barber
11 July, 2025

The ex-Reform MP is being looked into for allegedly not declaring hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations to his ‘rape gang inquiry’ project

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Donald Trump preparing to visit UK in coming weeks

Basit Mahmood
11 July, 2025

Trump will visit Scotland to open a new golf course.

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Chris Philp forced to admit Rwanda plan failed after trying to attack Labour small boats deal

Olivia Barber
11 July, 2025

The Tory MP was forced to admit that the Rwanda scheme resulted in zero deportations

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News

Government plan to scrap First Past the Post for mayoral and PCC elections welcomed

Olivia Barber
11 July, 2025

The Tories introduced FPTP for mayoral and PCC elections in 2022, a change seen as an attempt to boost their chances of winning elections

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons

Reform UK’s membership ‘falls by almost 10,000 in a month’

Basit Mahmood
11 July, 2025

Farage can’t be too pleased.

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