Rats in a Sack
12 November 2025
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
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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
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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”
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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
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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
Read the full article07 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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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