It's not just an accident or 'poor vetting' why people like this keep on turning up in Reform. There's a reason why they're attracted to the kind of politics Farage and his party represents
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The reaction to Shabana Mahmood's immigration 'reforms' shows exactly why this is such a dead-end for a Labour government. Lambasted by the right-wing press, hated by the left and ruinous for all those people actually affected by them. Pleasing nobody, whilst making everything worse
How does Kemi Badenoch square her conference speech expressing her revulsion over Suella Braverman's comments about Englishness with her continued endorsement of Rupert Lowe?
Why is the UK Government still boosting a social media platform which is devoted to spreading these lies about us?
Kemi Badenoch suggesting on the BBC this morning that the Conservative party could somehow save tens of billions of pounds by axing a few quangos, rather than slashing essential services. Just not serious
Why, as Reform UK's chances of winning the next general election drift away, the BBC still seems determined to give them an outsized level of attention adambienkov.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Is Propping Up Nigel Farage
Reform UK now in third place in four out of the last five UK polls bsky.app/profile/youg...
By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst
Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?
What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?
Two major polls today putting Labour back into the thirties. This one puts Reform firmly in third place and would give Labour a majority of around 134
Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Free Speech Union hit by internal allegations of racism and sexually inappropriate remarks
In his Daily Mail column today, describing Trump as "toast," Richard Littlejohn mocks the President's attempted annexation of Greenland as being mad, using the phrase "nurse!" Here's what Littlejohn wrote about it when Trump first suggested it
"He won't spend more on defense" You wouldn't know from any of the coverage that defence spending is now higher than at any point under the last Conservative government, and is due to continue rising every year under Burnham
Not only is Andrew Boff a very long-standing Conservative politician but he was one of Kemi Badenoch's close colleagues on the London Assembly. That she can't even tolerate him having different views, shows quite how intolerant of dissent they now are under her leadership
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ECHR row pushes Andrew Boff to leave London Tories after 53 years
"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...
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Actor describes 'abysmal racism and homophobia' he faced in Chichester
You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign
Despite Farage’s attempts this week to distance himself from the extreme views of his councillors and members, the reality is that his entire operation is absolutely infested with them. The barbarians are not just at the gates, but sitting comfortably inside www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-nigel-...
A government spokesperson told Byline Times that ministers were now "exploring what action to take" against MPs like Nigel Farage double-jobbing as presenters on GB News, as Ofcom's former standards chief tells us the watchdog has taken a "two tier" approach to the channel
So-called journalists nodding along as Nigel Farage talks about locking up actual journalists for doing actual journalism