Rats in a Sack
26 November 2025
Would you give £500,000 to Liz Truss?
The 49-day PM is back, selling off memberships to a networking club for the super-rich
Read the full article26 November 2025
It’s Budget day: probably best to avoid the Telegraph
The newspaper has a long, proud history of getting it completely wrong - as one egregious example from history shows
Read the full article25 November 2025
Elon Musk finally finds a use for Grok… and it’s vulgar
The billionaire has boasted that his much-derided AI tool can now be used to mock your friends for their looks
Read the full article25 November 2025
Tory chairman gets into Nazi emblem row with Reform
Kevin Hollinrake came under fire after comparing a new Reform emblem with one handed out to members of Adolf Hitler's party
Read the full article25 November 2025
Meet Reform’s new small business tsar and Nessie Truther
Kevin Byrne, Nigel Farage's new advisor on small businesses, has some punchy views on Covid vaccines, chemtrails and the Loch Ness Monster
Read the full article25 November 2025
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of ‘cowardice’ after anti-Trump quotes purged from lecture
The corporation axed part of a lecture in which the Dutch historian described Trump as 'the most openly corrupt president in American history'
Read the full article24 November 2025
Free speech champion Toby Young heads to Orbán’s Hungary
The Conservative peer has chosen a strange place to pontificate on free speech and rail against the policing of social media posts
Read the full article24 November 2025
Yet more triumphs for Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party
Another MP has quit, while its co-convenor in Wales has set up another party entirely
Read the full article24 November 2025
It’s GB News v Reform in a fight over flags
The right wing channel has taken umbrage at a "woke" Reform council's decision to remove Union flags to make room for Christmas lights
Read the full article24 November 2025
The Mail and Rod Liddle launch attacks on London
The newspaper and the columnist have both lashed out at the capital, one after an unlikely day trip and the other following a utensil dispute
Read the full article24 November 2025
Jailed for taking Russian bribes? Nothing to see here, says press
Nigel Farage’s former man in Wales was given 10-and-a-half years for accepting Russian cash, but the British media were more interested in Strictly Come Dancing
Read the full article24 November 2025
The Telegraph’s spectacular correction
The right wing paper, set to be bought by the Mail, was forced to correct an article in which it managed to get pretty much everything wrong
Read the full article21 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
Read the full article21 November 2025
Is Mr Goodwin going to Westminster?
Rumours emerge academic-turned-activist Matthew Goodwin is seeking a seat to become a Reform MP
Read the full article21 November 2025
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"
Read the full article21 November 2025
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?
Read the full article20 November 2025
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
Read the full article20 November 2025
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
Read the full article20 November 2025
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
Read the full article20 November 2025
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
Read the full article20 November 2025
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'
Read the full article20 November 2025
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
Read the full article20 November 2025
Big donor Anthony Bamford rides two tractors at once
The billionaire businessman has just handed £200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform
Read the full article18 November 2025
Lord Glasman and the anti-Labour conspiracy crowd
The peer behind the conservative ‘Blue Labour’ movement has been keeping some decidedly awkward company
Read the full article17 November 2025
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
Read the full article17 November 2025
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
Read the full article17 November 2025
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?
Read the full article17 November 2025
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
Read the full article17 November 2025
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
Read the full article13 November 2025
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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