Dartford Borough Reform ‘party‘ councillor James Buchan has defected to the Tories, just three months after winning election in Stone House ward as a Reform candidate. Buchan’s resignation statement notes that “the more I saw of Reform the more uncomfortable I felt” – and goes on to become...
On 26 October, the city of El Fasher in southern Sudan fell to the Rapid Support Force (RSF). The RSF reportedly began massacring civilians immediately after taking control. The death toll included nearly 500 patients at the local hospital. But in the press coverage that followed, some dim...
Dozens of British Jewish people have signed a statement of support for NHS medic Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who has been relentlessly targeted by the Starmer regime and Israel lobby for raids, arrests, harassment and prosecution, along with attempts to remove her medical licence – and by the Israe...
Once again, the BBC has shown its actual right-wing bias in its labelling of Question Time guests. BBC Question Time: under fire again On this week’s episode, the BBC labelled Faiza Shaheen, an established academic, author, and economist, as an “activist”. Meanwhile, they labelled far-righ...
A new investigation published by Corporate Watch, in collaboration with Good Jobs First, has uncovered evidence of soaring profits and burgeoning property portfolios among key subcontractors providing accommodation for asylum seekers. The report, timed to coincide with Clearsprings Ready H...
The Greens with Zack Polanski are now polling at 17%, one point higher than both Labour and the Conservatives. That said, Reform is still leading on 32%, according to Find Out Now. Are the Greens bringing about the beginning of the end for the two main parties? Could the two-party consensu...
As Skwawkbox covered yesterday, six Nottingham City councillors have quit the Labour Party over the Starmer regime’s war on the British people and collaboration in Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and its desperate control-freakery – to form the Nottingham People’s Alliance (NPA) independent gr...
After a long wait, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) finally revealed what the Timms Review would entail yesterday, well, in the vague way the DWP does. Despite trying to make it once again seem like they care about disabled people, it’s clear this is just another desperate attemp...
The British state’s attempts to crack down on pro-Palestine campaigning suffered another blow on Thursday 30 October, as an activist from the BDS Belfast group was acquitted on charges of criminal damage. BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a Palestinian-led campaign to weake...
A day after Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was humiliated by the UN’s human rights expert Francesca Albanese, it was US ambassador Mike Waltz’s turn – this time at the hands of Cuba’s dignified foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez. Mike Waltz: humiliated Rodríguez raised a simple po...
