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2026-09-18

Resist the anti-disability propaganda: The cruel and harmful rhetoric from supposed Christian Nationalists is in fact very unchristian.

2026-09-14: Two non-resident crypto billionaires are attempting to wreck British politics even further by funnelling astonishing amounts of cash towards Nigel Farage

2026-09-14: Political high-ups accusing everyday people or fraud are simply telling you what they themselves would do

2026-09-14

The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump: Primarily 1) war in Iran, 2) tariffs. Anyone who loves Britain should loathe Trump.

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past

2026-09-13

Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can: Not the first time I’ve seen this sort of claim.

2026-09-11: At least some members of Patriot Platform clearly had something beyond the extremely misnamed and …

2026-09-11: As predicted, whilst Nigel Farage can be rightfully credited with coming out against the tactics - …

2026-09-10: This week in British far-right idiocy

2026-09-09

Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England: Private companies inevitably getting in on this lucrative ‘business’.

2026-09-08

What is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth?: Another England-hating group of cowards led by another convicted criminal.

Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds: It’s a shame then that Reform have so little respect for their membership.

‘Army of patriots’: how a black-clad Christian vigilante group swarmed Portsmouth: Important story, bad headline - these people are not patriots or Christians as far as I can tell.

2026-09-01

Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’

2026-08-31: This is a shame (in my view): Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign. …

2026-08-30

Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire: Cryptocurrency isn’t the only enterprise making Reform’s number one donor very rich.

2026-08-29

From “lanyardians” to “Yookay”, the strange new language of Britain’s right: ‘Reform UK voters are far more likely than those of any other party to wrongly think they have public opinion on their side.’

2026-08-29: Developing the UK's North Sea oil fields further would likely end up being a pointless disaster

2026-08-27

Who watches the Watchman? Reform UK’s new ‘investigative journalism’ front revealed: As ever, the reason the alt right claim to think there’s a ‘liberal establishment’ media conspiracy contaminating our mainstream news cycle is because they themselves are doing it.

2026-08-26: Results of the 2024 UK General Election under different voting systems

2026-08-22: Nigel Farage, the anti-patriot, strikes again

2026-08-13: So today is Bin Day for our friends in Clacton. Whilst we await the pointless and expensive nonsense …

2026-08-13: Obviously, the violent and racist mob plaguing Thetford must be condemned in the strongest terms.

2026-08-12

Stagnation: the norm: ‘Before 1945 trend growth was usually below 1% a year.’

2026-08-08

Richard Tice and Reform’s money - the new unanswered question: ‘This is a question that cuts to the core of who funds British politics - and who funds Reform.’