Rats in a Sack
21 November 2025
The neo-Nazi links of Elon Musk’s Wiki rival
The X owner's Grokipedia cites the Stormfront website 42 times, along with numerous other unreliable or hate-filled sites
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Is Mr Goodwin going to Westminster?
Rumours emerge academic-turned-activist Matthew Goodwin is seeking a seat to become a Reform MP
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Anthony Seldon’s ill-timed Brexit conversion
The author and academic chose the day after yet more Brexit bad news to declare Britain's disastrous withdrawal from the EU a "score draw"
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The Daily Mail’s Boris Johnson Covid conundrum
Can the paper really continue to pay the former PM a seven-figure salary as a columnist after he was shamed by the independent inquiry?
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Zack Polanski goes low in Stow
The Green Party leader is accused of playing dirty amid rumours he wants to unseat Labour MP Stella Creasy in East London
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Michael Crick’s reverse-ferret on Farage racism claims
The journalist who last month dismissed claims of racism against the Reform leader as "absurd" now appears to have changed his mind
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The new Reform defector who thinks Farage is a tinpot dictator
Former Tory councillor Alan Mendoza has joined Nigel Farage's mob, but his views about his leader weren't always so positive
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Oh, Jeremy Corbyn – Your Party beset by more splits
After one MP quit the nascent party, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are still at loggerheads ahead of its conference
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GB News declares war on ‘foreign-sounding’ names
The channel reported on the 'non-British' names of many of those accused of sex offences, but conceded its analysis was 'not scientific'
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Golden boy Farage continues to rake it in on the side
The Reform leader has this week declared a whopping £207,000 in pay for October from his varied network of commercial interests
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Big donor Anthony Bamford rides two tractors at once
The billionaire businessman has just handed £200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform
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Lord Glasman and the anti-Labour conspiracy crowd
The peer behind the conservative ‘Blue Labour’ movement has been keeping some decidedly awkward company
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When Bev Turner wasn’t such a Donald Trump fan
A tweet from five years ago wasn't quite as obsequious as the GB News presenter's recent interview with the US president
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Truss backs Trump in his war on the BBC
The short-lived former prime minister has thrown her support behind the president's billion-dollar legal threat to the corporation
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A whiff of hypocrisy from Reform’s sole Scottish parliamentarian
The party's only MSP wants voters to be able to recall those who behave badly - but not those who defect to another party. Why's that?
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The double standards of the BBC’s critics
The Daily Mail and Telegraph have spent days attacking the corporation for lying, while being guilty of making up stories themselves
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Christian Calgie and the death of cancel culture
The Daily Express's senior political correspondent is back on social media, at work and on TV shortly after calling for a British-born MP to be deported
Read the full article15 November 2025
GB News’s Bev Turner is the useful idiot Trump craves
The president's favourite British presenter pitched him a series of less-than-penetrating questions in a rambling interview
Read the full article14 November 2025
Nandy sinks Telegraph sale… is Paul Marshall waiting in the wings?
US investment firm RedBird was all set to finally buy the title – until the culture secretary said it would need to go through a public inquiry
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Daniel Hannan goes full-on Matthew Goodwin
The Tory peer and self-styled "Brain of Brexit" has explicitly drawn a link between people’s racial heritage and violent crime
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Reform break another council tax pledge
Nigel Farage's party is going ahead with council tax premiums on second homes despite having previously decried them as "madness"
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The new face of Reform in Wales faces a spell on the sidelines
Laura Anne Jones is to be handed a two-week suspension from the Senedd following an investigation into offensive comments
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Now Farage turns his fire on… David Lloyd George
The Reform leader has lambasted the former Liberal prime minister for signing the Armistice to end the first world war
Read the full article11 November 2025
Some loopy names in the mix to be the BBC’s new chief
Isabel Oakeshott is championing former Mail editor Paul Dacre to be the new director general, while the Sun's Harry Cole thinks it should be himself
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BBC lectured on political bias… by Newsmax
Radio 4's Today programme invited on the founder of the right wing US cable TV firm to pontificate on the Beeb's failings
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Allison Pearson and some very dodgy maths
The Telegraph columnist, rumoured to be on her way out, spread fake news about crime figures on GB News
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Why Tim Davie and Deborah Turness jumped before they were pushed
One was expected to depart soon, amid suggestions of a job at the Premier League, while the other felt her position was untenable
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Another Reform councillor haunted by historic X posts… from 2024
Peter Mason, a cabinet member on Staffordshire Council, has been caught out for dodgy posts, some dating back a whole year
Read the full article10 November 2025
Now Reform’s Kent antics are a fire hazard
The party's culling of critical councillors has left the country's fire authority left with nobody to approve the service's spending, putting it at risk
Read the full article10 November 2025
We need fewer women MPs, suggests Tory thinker
A writer for Conservative Home says the party needs to stop promoting female MPs and get “a strong dose of social conservatism”
Read the full article10 November 2025
Reform are all for freedom of speech… unless they disagree
The party supports freedom of speech - but one Reform council cabinet member is unhappy with claims about a conflict of interest being aired
Read the full article10 November 2025
A touch of Frost for the Institute of Economic Affairs
The architect of Boris Johnson’s botched Brexit deal has been appointed director-general of the right wing think tank
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