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Woke-bashing of the week: ‘Woke’ addicts and Christian name controversies – Toby Young’s latest culture war rants
Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and perennial culture-warrior, is once again stirring the pot.
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Right-wing press spins more Brexit hypocrisy over Spain’s proposed 100% tax on non-EU property purchases
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that non-EU citizens will face steep taxes when purchasing property in ...
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Badenoch admits Tories had ‘no plan’ for post-Brexit Britain
Kemi Badenoch is set to admit that the Tories “made mistakes”, including deciding to leave the EU without a plan. Today Badenoch will make her first major speech as leader of the Conservative Party, ...
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Right-wing media watch – Tory press’s overblown hypocrisy on Reeves’ budget
The Tories and their supporting press, seem to have forgotten the catastrophic fallout from Liz Truss’s fiscal plans in the ...
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Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend launch of climate denial group
Climate sceptics Nigel Farage and Liz Truss joined the launch of the UK branch of a climate denying lobby group, set to be headed up by a former Ukip leader, as those opposed to net-zero policies seek ...
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What is the Heartland Institute? Inside the climate denial group Nigel Farage has links to
Nigel Farage and Liz Truss were at the UK launch of a US-based climate change denying lobbying group in December. The Heartland Institute, the US-based free market think tank known for denying ...
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Multi-millionaire Reform MP Rupert Lowe advocates for dismantling NHS and ‘buying own healthcare’
Reform MP Rupert Lowe has argued that the public should pay for their own healthcare and advocated for the NHS to be ...
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Jonathan Ashworth slams Reform UK for wanting to charge people to see a doctor
Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth has slammed Reform UK for wanting to charge people when they want to go and see a doctor, as he took aim at the policies of Nigel Farage’s party. With Reform rising ...
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Democratic backsliding in Georgia should be a warning to the UK
Georgia is one of the starkest examples of how foreign interference can destabilise democracy, but democracy in the UK is not immune from this risk. I was lucky enough to visit the beautiful country ...
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Keir Starmer savages Liz Truss’ cease and desist letter in PMQs
Keir Starmer mocked former Tory Prime Minister Liz Truss’ ‘cease and desist’ letter during today’s PMQs. In the letter, Truss urged the prime minister to stop repeating what she described as “false ...
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Just Stop Oil protestors who posted ‘Stop Tory Coal’ flyers on Tory MP’s office cleared of criminal damage
Three climate protestors who had charges brought against them for posting ‘Stop Tory Coal’ flyers over former Tory MP Mark Jenkinson’s office have been cleared of all charges. The protestors stuck ...
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Plastics industry used disinformation to lobby against ban on ‘forever chemicals’
The estimated cost of cleaning up 'forever chemical' pollution in the UK and Europe will be £1.6 trillion over 20 years Chemical and plastic companies orchestrated a disinformation campaign to water ...