Rats in a Sack
28 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
Read the full article22 October 2025
Poor Nigel Farage’s pitiful PMQs protest
The Reform leader threw a strop at his lack of questions and sat in the public gallery instead
Read the full article22 October 2025
Reform’s man in Caerphilly is keeping shtum on Nathan Gill
Llŷr Powell is curiously reticent to say when he last spoke to his former party leader and colleague, now facing jail for taking Russian cash
Read the full article22 October 2025
The London Business School course with a rather unfortunate name
A London college might want to rethink the title of its new course for Saudi leaders
Read the full article22 October 2025
Iain Dale’s very bad Brexit reading list
The LBC presenter suggested Rachel Reeves read a terrible tome about Brexit
Read the full article22 October 2025
Farage has nothing but love for Mishal Husain
The Reform leader took a boorish tone in his interview with the Bloomberg presenter
Read the full article20 October 2025
Not very Christian: Express man calls for MP to be deported
Christian Calgie has been forced to apologise after taking to social media to call for Zarah Sultana to be thrown out of the country
Read the full article20 October 2025
Could Kemi Badenoch go for Lowe?
The Tories have made the unusual decision of handing one of their prized committee places to former Reform man Rupert Lowe
Read the full article20 October 2025
Farage’s partner faces criminal fraud verdict
Laure Ferrari faces a criminal fraud verdict in Brussels over alleged misuse of €730,000 in EU funds
Read the full article20 October 2025
Robert Jenrick’s unlikely football memories
The shadow justice secretary and Wolves fan has been reminiscing about matches he could not possibly have attended
Read the full article20 October 2025
The true story of Thirsk’s phantom flag flinger
Shaun Remmer says he was sacked as a teaching assistant for putting up flags. The truth, inevitably, is rather different
Read the full article16 October 2025
Sponsor at Farage’s own conference accuses him of ‘far right’ rhetoric
The founder of Quews News has used his YouTube channel to slam the Reform leader’s views on immigration
Read the full article16 October 2025
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana the new Oasis? Whatever
The Your Party pair are reunited but still haven't settled Sultana's rather previous membership sign-up campaign
Read the full article15 October 2025
GB News’s random local was a Reform councillor
The right wing channel neglected to tell its viewers Kieran Mishchuk wasn't actually a local resident
Read the full article15 October 2025
Robert Jenrick, that Birmingham slur and a Tory association at war
The shadow justice secretary's attack on Handsworth has sparked revelations about where a video was actually filmed - and questions of who leaked his comments
Read the full article14 October 2025
Statesman’s new gossip column launch doesn’t go without a Hitch
The magazine appropriated one of its most famous contributors for its new column. Not everyone was delighted
Read the full article14 October 2025
What’s the real story behind Nathan Gill, Reform and Russia?
Questions abound about what senior party figures knew, and when, about the disgraced former Welsh leader’s links to Vladimir Putin’s regime
Read the full article14 October 2025
Yet more troubles in Reformland
Local government is not proving to be the cinch that Nigel Farage’s party assumed it to be
Read the full article14 October 2025
Clarkson’s bid for Parliament still stuck in first gear
The TV rentagob is threatening to challenge Ed Miliband at the next general election. But he’s been here before
Read the full article10 October 2025
Reform, Farage and Tice: it’s all about the money
The leaders of the hard right party are raking it in. Do any of them have any time left over for the boring stuff in life – like representing their constituents?
Read the full article09 October 2025
Meet the Tory pro-incest campaigner
The Times failed to spot the ‘colourful’ background of a Conservative Party member it interviewed at conference
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