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2026-09-08

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.’

2026-08-05

It’s the end of Reform as we know it: We can but hope, unless it gets replaced by something even worse.

2026-08-01: Temporarily housed Britons refused usage of air conditioning by landlords; children suffer

2026-08-01

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK: ‘Sources have described how staff at several different banks were so concerned about a range of transactions…that they reported them to the National Crime Agency’.

2026-07-29: You cannot possibly worship Thatcher and MAGA at the same time

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