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Thames Water fine reprieve sparks outrage over “rewarding failure”

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

“This nonsense must be, should be, has to be and will be opposed.”

A picture of the Thames Water logo

Woke-bashing of the week: The great Easter ‘outrage’ that wasn’t

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

It’s a depressingly familiar pattern, a carefully framed image, paired with a provocative narrative, travels faster than the truth, especially when it taps into pre-existing grievances about so-called ‘wokeness.’

Right-wing media watch – War, what war? The Express chooses Farage fan adulation over reality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Brown’s account of Farage’s campaign stops borders on the reverential. Even anonymous praise from a party candidate, “he’s going to change everything for the better,” is relayed without challenge.

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Keir Starmer calls Channel crossings ‘Farage boats’ in dig at his role in Brexit

Olivia Barber
1 October, 2025

‘These are Farage boats […] that are coming across the channel’

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Labour to lift two-child benefit cap in November budget

Basit Mahmood
1 October, 2025

It comes amid growing pressure from MPs, party members and child poverty campaigners to lift the cap.

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Basit Mahmood
30 September, 2025

Keir Starmer today delivered what was probably the best speech of his premiership, issuing a rallying cry for the country to unite against the likes of Nigel Farage

Campaigners holding signs reading "No health selloff" and "Stop privatising our NHS"
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Privatisation hurts patients, staff and the NHS – Labour must end it

Tony O'Sullivan
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For as long as the Government fails to deliver on its NHS promises, Labour’s days are numbered. 

Owen Jones
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Owen Jones kicked out of Labour conference as party revokes his pass

Chris Jarvis
30 September, 2025

He’s branded the decision ‘pathetic’ and ‘Trumpian’

Mick Barton, Reform leader at Nottinghamshire County Council
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Nottingham newspaper launches legal challenge against Reform council’s media ban

Olivia Barber
30 September, 2025

The letter says the ban was “irrational” and without legal basis

Elon Musk speaking at Tommy Robinson's protest
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Olivia Barber
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Singer-songwriter who has spent most of his life fighting against homophobia and racism says it is ‘absurd’ the far-right is using his song

Farage giving evidence at the US House Judiciary Committee
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Reform ‘proudly embracing’ US-style anti-abortion politics, campaigners warn

Olivia Barber
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‘The fact that anti-abortion MPs and ex-MPs are flocking to Reform is deeply worrying’

Keir Starmer and Bridget Philipson

Labour brings back maintenance grants for students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Basit Mahmood
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The means-tested grants will be aimed at “those who need them most” and would be funded by a new international student levy, as outlined in a recent immigration white paper.

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