Rats in a Sack
02 October 2025
The Spectator plays down Gove’s role in Mone scandal
The magazine’s coverage of Baroness Mone’s High Court loss neglects to mention the cabinet minister who accepted her PPE offer
Read the full article01 October 2025
Isabel Oakeshott fails her citizenship test
The journalist turned Reform activist made some dubious claims about nationality on social media
Read the full article01 October 2025
It’s official – Your Party is Jeremy Corbyn’s party
The former Labour leader has officially registered his new party - and there's no room at the top for Zarah Sultana
Read the full article01 October 2025
Baroness Bra gets something else to Mone about
A £122m High Court ruling went against the peer's firm less than 24 hours after she was making legal threats against chancellor Rachel Reeves
Read the full article01 October 2025
Reform oppose stirring up violence – except when they don’t
Nigel Farage's party is furious at Keir Starmer for allegedly stirring up violence with his comments. But they took a very different tack with Lucy Connolly
Read the full article01 October 2025
Trump up your Christmas tree – for just $465
The president’s wife is flogging baubles on her website for just $90 a pop
Read the full article30 September 2025
Labour’s conference and some merchandising missteps
Steve Reed’s red cap and an unfortunate tote bag turned heads at the party’s conference in Liverpool
Read the full article29 September 2025
The mood at Labour conference has turned against Andy Burnham
One MP said ‘Andy could make a great Labour leader in three-four years’ time if he’d just shut the f*** up right now’
Read the full article29 September 2025
Darren Grimes gets out the begging bowl
Being deputy leader of Durham Council isn’t enough for the former GB News man, who’s asking his online followers for cash
Read the full article29 September 2025
The Spectator backs Putin’s ‘clean and safe’ anti-woke Russia
The right wing magazine follows up defences of Tommy Robinson and the Tate brothers by lauding life under a murderous dictatorship
Read the full article26 September 2025
Tory chronicler Lord Ashcroft plots Jenrick exposé
With his publishing empire struggling, Lord Ashcroft has sets his sights on Bobby J
Read the full article26 September 2025
Reform’s ‘exemplary’ Councillor cashes in, without showing up
Reform councillors are proving that winning seats doesn’t always mean working them
Read the full article26 September 2025
The Trumps that stole Christmas
Melania’s holiday decorations are expensive, unapologetically Trump-branded and will cost you $465
Read the full article26 September 2025
Farage’s friend Nathan Gill loves his country, but it’s not Britain
Once a staunch ally of Farage, Gill now faces a substantial jail sentence after admitting to Kremlin-linked payouts
Read the full article25 September 2025
The Spectator: a Tate brothers fanzine
Michael Gove published a fawning interview with the notorious misogynists. Why is he giving space in his magazine to men facing charges of rape?
Read the full article25 September 2025
Reform’s anti-net-zero defector used to praise net zero
Danny Kruger once lauded the UK's policies to slow the rate of climate change
Read the full article24 September 2025
Nigel Farage fails at science
Could Donald Trump ever say anything so mad that Farage would disagree with it? On this evidence, no - probably not
Read the full article24 September 2025
Sadiq Khan lives rent-free in Donald Trump’s head
The president is rambling about London’s mayor again - and falsely claiming that the capital wants to embrace Sharia Law
Read the full article23 September 2025
The awkward past of Burnham ally who attacked Starmer
Sacha Lord resigned as Manchester mayor's advisor after Covid grant fraud investigation
Read the full article23 September 2025
Chris Mason’s defence of the BBC over Farage coverage goes badly wrong
Soon after its political editor denied giving Reform an easy ride, the Beeb broadcast 56 minutes of the populist’s press conference, live
Read the full article22 September 2025
Trump for PM, touts Jacob Rees-Mogg
Much like Brexit suddenly becoming a stunning success, Jacob, this isn't going to happen
Read the full article19 September 2025
BBC fails to give credit where it’s due
The corporation was happy to use our exclusive about Elon Musk and the Royal Society - but failed to acknowledge where it came from
Read the full article18 September 2025
Is the New Statesman assisting its own dying?
The magazine has published an article urging oldies sat around watching TV to be let die
Read the full article18 September 2025
Michael Gove’s history lesson
The Spectator editor has drawn an exact parallel between modern-day Britain and Weimar Germany
Read the full article18 September 2025
Trump’s latest free speech triumph – the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
The late-night presenter has been purged by ABC after falling foul of the president
Read the full article17 September 2025
Giles Coren finds out that Times readers are terrible
The columnist wrote about how Tommy Robinson's rally did not attract the three million the far-right rabble-rouser claimed. His readers didn't like it
Read the full article17 September 2025
Robert Redford, not always the president’s man
Donald Trump has paid tribute to the late actor and director, who had mixed feelings about the man in the White House
Read the full article17 September 2025
Welsh council didn’t mark Charlie Kirk’s death, fumes Reform
The party is up in arms that Torfaen Council failed to commemorate the death of the US podcaster
Read the full article17 September 2025
Write an essay, win a Farage shirt
A school in Reform-controlled Kent is offering a special prize to the pupil who writes the best essay about the party
Read the full article17 September 2025
Sarah Vine wants out of Britain
The Daily Mail columnist is none too pleased to be returning from her Italian holiday
Read the full article16 September 2025
The Times, the Sun and a mysterious Royal cleaner
The national press has been enthusiastically quoting a cleaner who worked for the Royal Family more more than a decade. The only problem? She doesn't appear to exist
Read the full article16 September 2025
Patience snaps among Guardian’s photographers
Journalists at the newspaper have been warned about using the traditional nickname for their camera-toting colleagues
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