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2026-07-18: Donald Trump’s state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK founded by …

2026-07-17

Trump’s Board of Peace drops full Gaza recovery plan in favour of tiny pilot scheme

2026-07-11: The British people correctly identify Farage as being the sleaziest politician in the UK

2026-07-09: The Coming Storm plots the recent history of the modern day conspiracism that rots our politics today

2026-07-05: The USA's 250th birthday party echoes its 150th in unfortunate ways

2026-07-04

For the Right, Playing Dumb is a Full-Time Job: ‘There are real criticisms you can make of any politician. Screaming “communism” at boilerplate heat-wave advice probably isn’t one of them.’

2026-07-02: Nearly 300k more people in England may die over the next decade as a result of the US UK trade deal

2026-06-28: 🎥 Watched The Apprentice. Why do I do it to myself one might fairly ask? But I did. This is the …

2026-06-28

Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show | International law: As well as demanding that Gaza gives them premises for free.

2026-06-27: Read Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram's 10-point manifesto for a better Britain in their 2024 book 'Head North'

2026-06-27: Patriot: the memoirs of the incredibly brave Russian anti-corruption campaigner, Alexei Navalny

2026-06-22

Two-Thirds Of Brits Believe Brexit Has Made Every Issue They Care About Worse, Survey Finds

2026-06-21: Learned a new word today: Kakistocracy …government by the worst, least qualified, or most …

2026-06-19: Some good context from George Eaton: Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, …

2026-06-19: Labour's Andy Burnham wins Makerfield election by ~9000 votes

2026-06-14: Unsurprisingly the Online Safety Act hasn't stopped social media companies pushing dangerous content

2026-06-13: The Trump administration forces Anthropic to stop foreign nationals accessing its latest AI models

2026-06-13: Dark Mirror retells the Edward Snowden story from a journalist's viewpoint

2026-06-08

Vulnerable families illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils: Probably illegal, definitely inhumane.

Farage paid £83k from events linked to US anti-abortion supporters: Whilst most of his supporters in the UK are actually rather pro abortion rights.

2026-06-06

Reform UK have decided the civil service is not to be trusted – weakness is at the heart of this ideological choice: ‘It’s an isolationism of ideas, driven by fear of the alternative or challenge.’

2026-06-03: The economic benefits of Open Source software

2026-05-31

‘One day I thought, that’s enough’: the people fighting back against pothole-riddled roads: ‘The dire state of roads has provoked pothole vigilantes and become a political flashpoint’

2026-05-27: Government department saves £ millions by replacing its Palantir IT system with an in-house one

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’