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Politics

2026-05-17

Tommy Robinson’s pointless, confused, US-funded march: ‘“This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics’

2026-05-17: The Open Rights Group's very comprehensive report on the importance of Digital Sovereignty

2026-05-16: Britain's dependence on US technology makes us vulnerable

2026-05-16

Is being prime minister now an impossible job?: ‘No longer must we tolerate amateur political leaders and outdated systems of government.’

2026-05-14: Starmer's government is following the path of the recent Conservative administrations in terms of ministerial resignations

2026-05-07: There's no party that hates the working class more than Reform

2026-05-07: It's election day in the UK once again

2026-05-04: Reform's latest unhinged and hopefully illegal policy: 'if you vote Green we'll put a massive immigrant prison near you'

2026-05-01

Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

2026-04-27

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys: ‘Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?"’

2026-04-26: Tim Marshall's 'Prisoners of Geography' may help you understand the world at least a little better

2026-04-25

‘Angry Leftie women’: the real politics behind the ‘femosphere’ moral panic: ‘The question isn’t why young women are “angry.” It’s why their autonomy is being positioned as a political problem, one that is increasingly tied to immigration, birth rates, and national identity, and used to justify a broader rollback of rights’

2026-04-08

AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.

2026-04-08: The incomprehensible events of contemporary times

2026-04-07: Legislation punishing citizens of specific nationalities for actions they didn't take is absolutely unacceptable

2026-04-05

The Guardian view on Britain’s religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power: The twisted and disrespectful abuse of faith by Reform et al in order to sow cultural division for political gain - nothing more, nothing less.

Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage’s sleeve: Flashy stunts that don’t solve any of the country’s underlying problems.

2026-04-04: Policy reactions so far to the oil crisis

2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon

2026-03-22: Timothy Snyder on why the No Kings protests are important

2026-03-22

Britain is sliding towards billionaire politics: Is Labour too timid to stop it?: ‘The conditions that allow extreme wealth to dominate politics, such as rising campaign costs, sophisticated digital campaigning, and weak transparency rules, are present here too’.

2026-03-21

GB News has become Reform TV and no one stopped it: Yet another example of Britain’s regulators proving entirely inadequate.

2026-03-21: A short visual history of US interference with Iran

2026-03-08

New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’: A rare bright spot in the smorgasbord of disappointment from the UK’s Labour government.

2026-02-27: The Greens win the Gorton and Denton by-election by a whopping 12 percentage points