Rats in a Sack
10 January 2025
Why were Boris Johnson’s junior aides ennobled?
The official reasons Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell were handed peerages has been published - and things are still no clearer
Read the full article09 January 2025
Free speech champion Truss slaps Starmer with legal letter
The short-lived former prime minister is a doughty campaigner for free speech - unless you point out she crashed the economy
Read the full article08 January 2025
Times Radio moves a Liddle further to the right
The appointment of the rent-a-gob columnist to its presenting roster is a sign of the station's shifting politics
Read the full article08 January 2025
Yet another new job for part-time MP Nigel Farage
The man of the people is now shilling for a gold bullion trading firm
Read the full article07 January 2025
The mystery of Elon Musk, Adrian Dittman and the Spectator
Two writers claim they did not receive credit for work on a story that has been buried by X
Read the full article07 January 2025
Meet Times Radio’s new expert pundit: Elon Musk’s dad
Errol Musk pontificated on the station about Tommy Robinson and Nelson Mandela. But might he have something to contribute on grooming?
Read the full article07 January 2025
Conspiracy theories are just Standard for editor
The new woman at the top of London's now-weekly newspaper seems to fancy building up her profile as yet another edgy right wing pundit
Read the full article07 January 2025
Who is Marco Longhi, Reform’s latest Tory defector?
Not even a household name in his own household, Reform's new signing is an oddball even by the standards of the outgoing Conservative cohort
Read the full article07 January 2025
The Times, they are a-changin’ columnists
The Thunderer shows inconsistency in its latest star appointment, while at the Daily Mail nothing changes
Read the full article06 January 2025
Why a Mail on Sunday poll was a catalogue of blunders
The paper claimed its poll showed Keir Starmer would be out of office within a year. Except it didn't
Read the full article06 January 2025
Musk’s u-turn leaves Julia Hartley-Brewer in a tizz
The X owner's call for Nigel Farage to step down reminded the hardline Brexiteer she did have an aversion to foreign involvement in British politics after all
Read the full article03 January 2025
Time for Tories to bring back ousted MPs, says Grant Shapps
The former Conservative defence secretary has called on his party to adopt 'experienced' general election candidates now. Whoever can he mean?
Read the full article02 January 2025
Suella Braverman’s geography lesson
The former home secretary recalled visiting the Italian-Turkish border, despite no such thing existing
Read the full article02 January 2025
How did man of the people Nigel Farage get to use Blenheim Palace?
The anti-establishment Reform leader got to use Winston's Churchill birthplace as the backdrop to his new year's message
Read the full article31 December 2024
Spare a thought for Jonathan Gullis this festive period
The former Conservative MP is still out of work nearly six months after losing his seat
Read the full article31 December 2024
Tories split over Waspi women compensation
The shadow Wales secretary has contradicted her leader and said the Tories might have compensated the Waspi women after all
Read the full article31 December 2024
Toby Young and the phony war on Shakespeare
The new peer is peddling misinformation about Bridget Phillipson’s plans for education
Read the full article30 December 2024
The Daily Mail’s Mickey Mouse maths
The right wing newspaper's claims of a Labour-sparked rise in the price of holidays is pure fantasy
Read the full article30 December 2024
Is Farage embracing the World Economic Forum?
The Reform leader is curiously keen on the big four auditors sifting through his books, despite their links to a body he rejects
Read the full article30 December 2024
Meet the Johnsons? Only if he turns up
Reality TV makers sniffing around the former prime minister should beware the lesson of GB News
Read the full article23 December 2024
Reform’s new star signings already at odds
Andrea Jenkyns and Tim Montgomerie are at each other's throats just weeks after defecting to the party
Read the full article23 December 2024
Campaigner Carole out of the the door at the Observer
Scourge of the Brexiteers Carole Cadwalladr is leaving the Sunday paper just days after its takeover was confirmed
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20 December 2024
Peering into a mystery
Just why were Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell put into the House of Lords by Boris Johnson? We may be about to find out
Read the full article20 December 2024
Owen Jones’s non-apology for liking anti-Semitic bile
The Guardian columnist wrote a 9,000 word rant on the BBC’s sloppiness over the Israel/Hamas war, then failed to read a 37-word anti-Semitic comment – which he then liked
Read the full article20 December 2024
The immaculate conception of Allison Pearson
A recent social media rant by the Telegraph columnist about Hugo Rifkind, the Times writer, contained a stunning revelation
Read the full article20 December 2024
Paul McCartney and the worst birthday party in Britain
While the music legend was playing the O2, a gathering worthy of The New European’s Shit List was taking place in Westminster
Read the full article20 December 2024
The Telegraph goes radio gaga
The ailing broadsheet has become fixated with a losing candidate for the top position – and not for the first time
Read the full article18 December 2024
How you and I handed Boris Johnson an extra £183,000
The former prime minister is claiming tens of thousands of pounds in state support to pay for a role in public life
Read the full article18 December 2024
Lib Dems minds already turning to next leader
While Ed Davey faces an uncontested leadership election, a more interesting poll looms next year
Read the full article17 December 2024
Does anyone want to stump up for the Telegraph?
The number of people willing to pay the price tag for the titles is rapidly dwindling
Read the full article17 December 2024
Careful now: anti-woke Linehan and Doyle head for America
The Father Ted creator and GB News commentator are off to America in search of "artistic freedom"
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