Rats in a Sack
07 November 2025
Another suspended councillor and a mucky book row – just an average week for Reform in Kent
Another councillor has been suspended over a leaked video while one claims he was booted out for writing an "erotic novel" at Reform's flagship council
Read the full article06 November 2025
Irony overload as Dominic Cummings lays into Lammy
Boris Johnson's former chief advisor has accused the deputy prime minister of being 'over-promoted'. Really, Dom?
Read the full article06 November 2025
Desperate Reform council seeks to cut care
Cash-strapped Lancashire Council is looking to save the money it spends on care homes. But does the relevant cabinet member have an interest?
Read the full article06 November 2025
Is it advantage Tice in the battle to be Farage’s chancellor?
Reform's deputy leader is battling Zia Yusuf to occupy 11 Downing Street in the event the party wins power
Read the full article05 November 2025
Black people can’t be English, insists Reform councillor
Councillor Alexander Jones - hailed by Nigel Farage as "young, energetic and exactly what’s needed" - made the inflammatory comments on Facebook
Read the full article04 November 2025
Stop making childbirth all about women, demands Rupert Lowe
The former Reform MP is fed up with women getting all the attention during childbirth and wants camp beds and hot pasta for the dads
Read the full article04 November 2025
How the Reform council cancelled Christmas
Nigel Farage's flagship local authority has told a parish council to take down its flags - or face not having any festive decorations this year
Read the full article03 November 2025
Has the New Yorker been duped by a 30-year-old British comedy?
A new documentary from the magazine examines the British broadcasting ban on Sinn Féin leaders’ voices. But one figure looks oddly familiar
Read the full article03 November 2025
Now the loony right turns its fire on… the poppy appeal
Esther McVey and Laurence Fox are among those convinced the Royal British Legion has gone ‘woke’
Read the full article03 November 2025
Some serious questions for Matt Goodwin
The academic turned activist has used the horrific train attack in Cambridgeshire to further his political agenda, whether the facts suit or not
Read the full article03 November 2025
Reform demand by-election after councillor defects – the wrong way
The party says it is a betrayal a Dartford councillor defected to the Conservatives – but haven’t been keen on by-elections when switches went the other way
Read the full article03 November 2025
Mail hoodwinked by Saudi pie in the sky
The paper reported how media organisations had been fooled by reports of a skyscraper stadium, but neglected to mention one in particular
Read the full article31 October 2025
Will pride come before a call for Zia Yusuf?
Reform's policy chief seems increasingly to believe that the next general election is won, culminating in a graceless speech at an awards ceremony
Read the full article30 October 2025
Rachel Reeves, an unfortunate Facebook post and Tory hypocrisy
The chancellor claims not to have known about licensing rules relating to letting out her home - but a post on social media suggests otherwise
Read the full article30 October 2025
The truth behind the Times’s de Blasio blunder
The paper’s man in New York thought he was emailing the city’s former mayor – but it was a wine importer with a similar name
Read the full article29 October 2025
More triumphs for Reform, from Cornwall to Kent
Nigel Farage's party has lost yet another swathe of councillors due to internal feuds
Read the full article29 October 2025
It’s Your Party v Your Party in court
The internal arguments in Jeremy Corbyn's new left wing party have taken yet another twist
Read the full article29 October 2025
The Times hoaxed by a mock mayor
Days after being forced to pull a fake story about a Treasury minister's furniture, the paper appears to have been hoodwinked by an impostor
Read the full article29 October 2025
As Musk urges civil war, why are government departments still on X?
The X founder continues to foment unrest on Britain's streets, yet the UK government appears happy to post on his platform
Read the full article28 October 2025
Torsten Bell, the right wing press and a £900 desk that wasn’t
The Mail, Telegraph and Times attacked the Labour minister for blowing taxpayers’ cash on swanky furniture: The only problem: it wasn't true
Read the full article28 October 2025
Hold the PopCon: right wingers gather for migration pow-wow
The Trussite Popular Conservatism group is hosting an event promising "candid exchanges" on immigration, but it's strictly hush-hush who says what
Read the full article28 October 2025
The New York Post takes aim at ‘Nepo Baby’ Mamdani
The tabloid is mocking the Democrat frontrunner, forgetting the background of its owner and the disgraced former governor it's backing
Read the full article27 October 2025
Yet more Reform councillors jump ship in Cornwall
The party's former leader in the county has joined his deputy in ditching it to go independent
Read the full article27 October 2025
How Toby Young failed to make the grade
Rod Liddle mocked George Abaronye for getting into Oxford without straight A grades - something a prominent colleague of his also did
Read the full article27 October 2025
Rishi Sunak gets stuck into his new job – unlike his predecessors
The former PM has begun his new Sunday Times column, but Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and David Cameron seem in no urgency to work
Read the full article23 October 2025
The Sun’s Kate Ferguson declares war on MP’s trainers
The paper's political editor took umbrage at the Green MP Siân Berry's casual footwear
Read the full article23 October 2025
We need more trust in media, says Murdoch man Les
Les Hinton, who oversaw the Sun and the News and the World in the 2000s, has been speaking out about the lack of trust in the media
Read the full article23 October 2025
Brexit finally gets its museum… in Ireland
While the official Museum of Brexit is still yet to open its doors, Ireland's national museum is putting memorabilia to opposition on display
Read the full article23 October 2025
Is Katie Lam the new Adam Afriyie?
Conservatives are comparing the ambitious new Tory MP with a predecessor whose light shined brightly but briefly
Read the full article23 October 2025
Kent Council leader’s glittering writing career
If things continue to go wrong for Linden Kemkaran she could always return to her Spectator scribblings
Read the full article23 October 2025
The Tory peer and the heat pump job he failed to clear
Former energy minister Martin Callanan has taken a job with a heat pump firm he failed to clear with the watchdog
Read the full article22 October 2025
Michael Wolff, the journalist being sued by Melania Trump for $1bn
The Trumps have always used the threat of legal action to silence their critics. But in going after the journalist Michael Wolff they have made a big mistake
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