On Sunday 2 November, Laura Kuenssberg asked Kemi Badenoch why the Tories are less popular under her leadership. While Badenoch tried to evade the question, she answered it anyway – namely by explaining the Tories are little more than a Reform tribute act now: “Now people know where we sta...
On one of the streets of Gaza that Israel’s army left only days ago, eight-year-old Adam was sifting through the rubble of what used to be his home, searching for his old toy. He didn’t know that among the stones, death was waiting for children like him. He spotted something that looked li...
US president Donald Trump ‘erased entire families’ as part of his racist, fascist war on millions of legally-settled immigrants – during his first term as president, before his current escalation that has set thousands of rogue ‘ICE’ officers on multicultural communities, put troops on the...
Israeli police have launched a search for former military prosecutor Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, who has gone missing after admitting that she was the source of a leaked video that showed Israeli troops raping a Palestinian abductee at Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp. Yerushalmi resigned her ...
London-listed miner Pensana has abandoned its planned £250 million rare-earth refinery near Hull, opting instead to build the facility in the United States, despite being the “poster child” of the UK’s critical minerals strategy. The strategy was an attempt for the UK to be part of a suppl...
It’s Halloween week on Strictly! Now, usually this is one of the best weeks in the competition, but in a series that’s both somehow not trying hard enough and trying too much, I’m a bit apprehensive. But nonetheless, I’m excited, also for all us clock-watchers/people who fall asleep on the...
This Halloween, the ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe spoke out on behalf of all the new fathers. While we’re in favour of enhancing UK healthcare wherever we can, we’re not convinced Lowe feels the same way: In March there was a vote in Parliament to make a paltry two weeks of paternity leave a st...
On Sunday 2 November, gambling campaigner Matt Zarb-Cousin faced off against gambling advocate Abbie MacGregor. Zarb-Cousin was there to argue that online casinos need to pay more taxes; MacGregor was there to let everyone know her opponent worked for Jeremy C-C- Corbyn: If you’re unable t...
For the British right, attacking sick and disabled people is nothing new. While politicians have no problem smearing adults, however, they usually avoid targeting children in open debate. Grimly, Reform decided to shake things up: Councils spend more than £2bn on special needs school trans...
Fresh off winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is eyeing up the Nobel Literature Prize. In aid of that, she concocted the following narrative: 🇻🇪 This Bloomberg conversation with Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado is full of wild claims. Aside from ...
