Rats in a Sack
27 May 2025
Reform can’t resist Liverpool conspiracy theories
The police's attempt to stop wild speculation about the horrific events at a victory parade couldn't stop Nigel Farage's online army
Read the full article27 May 2025
Brassic Guardian can’t foot awards bill any more
The paper can no longer financially support the Paul Foot Awards. So it was awkward when two of their own journalists won
Read the full article27 May 2025
Piers Morgan’s surprisingly magnanimous apology
Kirstie Allsopp boasted of receiving an apology from the former Daily Mirror editor - for an article which appeared 16 years after he was sacked
Read the full article26 May 2025
The mystery of the Telegraph’s missing family
The paper published a heartbreaking story of a family only able to afford one long-haul holiday a year after VAT hikes - only for it to vanish from its website
Read the full article26 May 2025
Anti-Starmer strike fails to hit its target
Anti-government protests, cheered on by GB News, predicted half a million on the streets. It didn't quite work out like that
Read the full article23 May 2025
New Reform councillor already tires of “dull and boring” meetings
Just weeks after being elected, a Reform councillor asked constituents whether he should step down after failing to enjoy his first meeting
Read the full article23 May 2025
Give Trump the Nobel Prize, Tory peer pleads
A Conservative peer has written to government ministers urging them to get behind a call for the US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Read the full article21 May 2025
Is Blackpool’s new Reform pub all it seems?
London journalists are flocking to a Lancashire hostelry dedicated to Nigel Farage's party. Pity it has an unfortunate history
Read the full article21 May 2025
Absent Farage found frolicking in France
The Reform leader has been uncharacteristically quiet in the week of the prime minister's big EU deal
Read the full article20 May 2025
Starmer’s EU deal sends right-wing rags back to 2016
The government's European reset saw the Mail, Sun, Telegraph and the like hark back to happier times
Read the full article20 May 2025
Is Starmer about to suffer his first defection?
At least two Labour MPs are on a watchlist amid rumours of a switch to the Green Party
Read the full article20 May 2025
Runners and riders gathering in the race to succeed Badenoch
There isn't currently a vacancy for the Conservative Party leadership - but that hasn't stopped some MPs from looking around
Read the full article19 May 2025
Lee Anderson doesn’t know Jack
The Reform MP mocked Keir Starmer for his 'magic beans' from the EU. Perhaps he should re-read the fairytale...
Read the full article16 May 2025
Wales? Scotland? It’s all the same to Kemi Badenoch
The Conservative leader appeared to forget where she was when she boasted of meeting so many MSPs in Wales
Read the full article15 May 2025
A bit of pocket money for Rishi Sunak
The former prime minister picked up £160,175 for a single speaking engagement in the US
Read the full article15 May 2025
Leaked recording reveals Tories’ Dublin disorientation
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp was caught out revealing how Boris Johnson's government hadn't understood the EU's asylum rules
Read the full article14 May 2025
Jonathan Gullis finally gets a job
The former Conservative MP is returning to the world of work after struggling to land an interview as a teacher
Read the full article13 May 2025
GB News predicts ‘Irexit’ – with 18% backing
The right wing channel claimed Ireland was heading for an exit on the basis of a poll showing support for membership had plummeted to, er, 82%
Read the full article13 May 2025
More trepidation at the Statesman as a new deputy rides into town
New editor Tom McTague has named his deputy – and the similarities are hard to miss
Read the full article13 May 2025
Desperate Kemi loyalists seek to save their leader
With Badenoch floundering in the polls, her supporters are looking for something – anything – to rescue her
Read the full article13 May 2025
Is No 10 about to put the kibosh on culture?
The government is rumoured to be about to ditch not just culture secretary Lisa Nandy but her department entirely
Read the full article13 May 2025
Keeping up with Liz Jones
Former colleagues of the Mail on Sunday diarist are gobsmacked at her latest outpouring, with eyebrow-raising tales of subterfuge and at-desk urination
Read the full article09 May 2025
Farage’s new army already going AWOL
Little more than a week since being elected, a number of Reform councillors face having to stand down
Read the full article08 May 2025
Badenoch’s booze reception lacks fizz for Tory MPs
The Conservative leader's attempts to rally round her twitchy parliamentary party fell flat
Read the full article07 May 2025
The Standard is backing Susan Hall again – and London must be baffled
The capital's newspaper is bigging up the woefully underqualified Conservative candidate against Sadiq Khan in the most recent mayoral contest
Read the full article07 May 2025
The India deal – another triumph for Liz Truss
A column in the Telegraph tries to give credit for a new trade deal to the former PM, while ignoring some other, rather large problems
Read the full article05 May 2025
Is it the Guardian In Name Only?
The editor-in-chief’s absence has done little to tackle the simmering resentments over the sale of the Observer
Read the full article05 May 2025
Stop working from home, says Farage… unless you work for Reform
While saying council workers must return to the office, the party is making no such demand of its new regional director
Read the full article02 May 2025
Will Reform regret selecting loose cannon Jenkyns?
The new mayor of Greater Lincolnshire was publicly contradicting party policy within minutes of being elected
Read the full article02 May 2025
Banks just misses out on job he didn’t want
The Brexiteer businessman came second in the race for West of England mayor – a role he derided as a ‘meaningless job’
Read the full article01 May 2025
Cash-strapped Standard loses another £20m
The no-longer-evening newspaper reported another whopping pre-tax loss in the year up to last September, new figures show
Read the full article30 April 2025
Daniel Hannan gets it spectacularly wrong again, part 472
The Tory peer and 'Brain of Brexit' has hit out at those who claim Canada's Conservatives threw away an election which they began with a 23-point lead
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