Rats in a Sack
20 January 2025
Is former Welsh Tory leader set to defect to Reform?
Sources say the recently ousted Andrew RT Davies is actively seeking an ‘off-ramp’ to justify a move to Nigel Farage’s party
Read the full article20 January 2025
Johnson’s turn at Trump’s top table no surprise to Rats readers
We told you last week of Tory beliefs the former prime minister, not Nigel Farage, was the Brit with the ear of Trump's first buddy Elon Musk
Read the full article20 January 2025
Tories put Suella Braverman back on defection watch
The former home secretary’s visit to Washington DC has sparked fears among Conservatives she might be about to make the jump to Reform
Read the full article20 January 2025
GB News finds supporters thirsting for Trump
The right wing channel went vox popping for Trump fans but at least one refreshed cheerleader had to be cut off in his pomp
Read the full article20 January 2025
Just why is bandwagon-jumper Robert Jenrick so popular with Tory members?
The shadow justice secretary has won Conservative Home's MP of the Year after shamelessly courting the right wing press
Read the full article17 January 2025
Swede dreams show Darren Grimes’s hypocrisy
The GB News presenter's favourite footballer is a product of a migrant success story. No wonder he's confused
Read the full article16 January 2025
No, Starmer not attending Trump’s inauguration is not a stain on history
The right are fuming that Keir Starmer won’t be in Washington for the president’s swearing-in. But no prime minister ever has
Read the full article15 January 2025
Is Elon Musk lying about being an expert gamer?
The world’s richest man claims to be one of the world’s top players of RPG Path Of Exile 2. But a video of him in action suggests something quite different
Read the full article15 January 2025
Tice and Oakeshott keep on digging
The Reform deputy leader and his partner continue to peddle a lie which has already led to death threats
Read the full article14 January 2025
Would you pay £41 for a Cameo appearance from Steve Baker?
The self-styled 'Brexit hardman' has been reduced to flogging videos of himself on a celebrity website
Read the full article14 January 2025
Is Johnson, not Cummings, the real Musk whisperer?
Are the former prime minister's fingerprints on several of Elon’s most famous interventions?
Read the full article14 January 2025
Isabel Oakeshott gets it wrong, again
The journalist and Reform campaigner badly misrepresented a Welsh charitable appeal
Read the full article14 January 2025
Is Andrew Neil really a five-times-a-week man?
The broadcaster rails against the four-day week, yet took Fridays off during a recent radio stint
Read the full article10 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
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