Rats in a Sack
14 January 2026
Another Tory spinner makes the move into journalism
Aaron Newbury is the latest former CCHQ press officer to make the unlikely switch to reporting the news
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Was David Bowie really a ‘secret Tory’? (spoiler alert: no)
A Telegraph columnist claimed, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, that the Thin White Duke supported the Conservatives
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UKIP’s new logo looks strangely familiar
The hard right party has launched its new logo - but where have we seen it before...?
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The Times’s Jenni Russell breaks her new year’s resolution
The columnist vowed to show more gratitude in 2026, but that quickly fell by the wayside
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The Reform councillor and the white supremacist dating site
A Reform member of two Midlands councils "cannot recall the details" of how he might have accidentally ended up listed on a dating site for racists
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Is Nadhim Zahawi really such a boost for Reform?
The short-lived former chancellor has a history of terrible political judgment
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Reform’s big new year rally fails to excel
The party held a showpiece rally at a London conference centre but it only half sold out. Might it be because of how it talks about the capital?
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The pro-women and children right wingers who back X and ICE
A number of figures on the right are claiming to support women and children while throwing their weight behind Elon Musk’s X and ICE agents
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Telegraph backs Trump taking Greenland
The increasingly unhinged newspaper has published a series of articles supporting the US taking the Danish territory
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Lady Bamford’s lifestyle brand remains a labour of love
The venture of the billionaire donor's wife recorded a £9 million loss in new accounts lodged with Companies House
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Richard Keys’s tin-eared tribute
The presenter posted an online tribute to the Wales football legend, but made it all about himself
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Marco Rubio, we salute you, cheers CBS News
The broadcaster, now under the stewardship of Bari Weiss, ran a first-person piece extolling the virtues of the secretary of state
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Fox News takes prize for crassest coverage of Minneapolis
The channel's presenter Jesse Watters thought the most important thing about Renee Nicole Good's murder was the fact she had "pronouns in her bio"
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It’s Harry Cole v Dan Wootton in fight over Reform’s London candidate
The former Sun colleagues are coming to online blows over Laila Cunningham's candidacy to be the capital's mayor
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What really forced a Southampton restaurant to close?
The papers say it was due to a hotel hosting migrants next door. But locals and campaigners say it was more to a series of far right protests
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The strangely close links between Reform and the UAE
Nigel Farage's party is developing close relationships with the autocratic petrostate partly governed by Sharia law
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Reform duck a debate for the most bizarre of reasons
The party declined to put up a representative for the first broadcast debate of this year's vital Senedd election
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Ant Middleton misses out on chance to be Reform mayor of London
The SAS: Who Dares Wins star was seen as the party's presumptive candidate in the capital, but has lost out to Laila Cunningham
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Why is the government still using X?
Ministers have defended continuing to use the nudifying app, despite it appearing to have no benefits for them whatsoever
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Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and some free hypocrisy
The Reform pair attacked Keir Starmer over accepting freebies – but were happy to take tickets to sporting events themselves
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Is Reform turning out Canterbury’s lights?
Campaigners say the party is planning to rip up the city's historic lampposts. Reform says it's fake news
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Et tu, QAnon Shaman?
The face of the Capitol riots has turned against Donald Trump, claiming he is the actual legitimate president of the US
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The Standard searches for those talking London down
The paper has reported on those bots promoting the idea the capital is a dangerous hellhole. Perhaps it should look close to home
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How the MAGA elite became pro-foreign intervention
Donald Trump's supporters have for years championed his opposition to getting entangled in overseas engagements. That all changed over the weekend
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No, the National Trust didn’t blacklist a volunteer for pointing out spelling mistakes
The paper started this year with a story rather more complicated than its headline suggests
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William Sitwell wages war on vegans, again
The Telegraph columnist is blaming Veganuary for the woes being experienced by his new restaurant
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The Kings College professor predicting UK civil war
David Betts is all over the right wing podosphere warning of 23,000 deaths a year and children's kneecaps being drilled out
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Is this why Trump snubbed Venezuela’s obvious transition president?
The US president is said to have opposed María Corina Machado after she received the Nobel Peace Prize he coveted so much
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Kemi Badenoch, a burger and a perplexing analogy
The Conservative leader has been repeating a strange phrase from peer Daniel Hannan comparing Brexit to a burger
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Elon Musk’s Grok hits a grim new low
The billionaire's Hitler-praising AI chatbot is allowing users to remove clothes from people's photos without their consent
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GB News concocts some Hootenanny fury
The hard right channel reported on 'fury' about Jools Holland's 'woke' annual jamboree - from a lone X account
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Trump raises more questions than he answers on his health
The 79-year-old gave a rambling interview about his excessive aspirin usage and how his hands got "whacked"
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