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Labour minister caught in a lie over leasehold betrayal

28 March 2026 @ 7:06 pm

labourLeasehold properties are a national scandal, and these properties are causing misery for millions of people. Labour promised to end this issue, but in government they’ve instead opted to kick the can down the road. The problem is they want voters to believe they’re solving the problem even as they refuse to do so. As […] By Willem Moore

Yemen’s Houthis have joined Israel’s war on the side of Iran

28 March 2026 @ 7:03 pm

HouthisIn a new moment of escalation, the Houthis of Yemen have joined Israel’s war on the side of Iran: JUST IN: 🇾🇪🇮🇷 Yemeni Houthis officially enter war against US & Israel in support of Iran. "Our operations will continue until the objectives are achieved." pic.twitter.com/1TmQcRRrHz — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) March 28, 2026 Houthis escalation The […] By Willem Moore

Video emerges of Reform’s ‘Nazi salute’ candidate drink driving

28 March 2026 @ 6:59 pm

ReformWith the local elections fast approaching, Reform are doing everything they can to attract viable candidates. The problem is many of these candidates have proven so unviable that they’ve failed to even make it to the election. This was on full display with the following shortlisted candidate for the Welsh constituency of Bridgend and Vale […] By Willem Moore

Green conference votes AGAINST energy company nationalisation

28 March 2026 @ 6:44 pm

Green PartyThe Green Party conference has voted in favour of a motion opposing nationalisation of “the five largest energy supply companies”. Despite the party currently having over 215,000 members, the motion passed with just 478 members voting in favour of it. 192 opposed it, and 15 didn’t vote. Polls have consistently shown that the vast majority […] By The Canary

Green conference showed democracy, but also how easily it’s undermined

28 March 2026 @ 6:42 pm

Green PartyThe Green Party is having its first conference since the major uptick in membership numbers in recent months. But the first day didn’t go smoothly. Because while it showed the party’s internal democracy in full swing, it also showed how easily cynical efforts can undermine it. Green Party — The workings of a democratic process […] By The Canary

BBC disputes Tom Skinner’s £2k Question Time payout claim

28 March 2026 @ 6:08 pm

Tom Skinner, the Question Time logo, and a pile of cashTom Skinner is famous for three things: Not being political. Being a member of Reform UK (a political party). “Bosh”. Thomas Skinner used to post long ChatGPT paragraphs about how he's not political, and he's just a normal guy grafting. pic.twitter.com/WjcwjD3ZUn — Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) January 20, 2026 In his efforts to explain how un-political he […] By Willem Moore

Trump suggests NATO is dead & the Iran War is lost

28 March 2026 @ 5:52 pm

Trump, a burning gas field, and the NATO logoIn a startling interview, Donald Trump has suggested the US is done with NATO. As NATO is little more than a US protection racket, this would effectively mean that NATO is over: Massive geopolitical shift. Trump announces the US is abandoning NATO because European nations refused to join his illegal and disastrous war against Iran. […] By Willem Moore

Reform’s Matt Goodwin ‘flayed’ in debate on AI book inaccuracies

28 March 2026 @ 5:30 pm

ReformMatt Goodwin was the unsuccessful Reform UK candidate in the Gorton & Denton by-election. Not content with losing that race, Goodwin went on to find all new ways of being a loser in the aftermath. Most recently, this saw him publishing a book that was filled with dodgy stats, fake quotes, and AI hallucinations. In […] By Willem Moore

Watch: Green Party’s Mothin Ali provides brilliant take on race and social class

28 March 2026 @ 5:00 pm

Green PartyThe Co-Deputy Leader of the Green Party Mothin Ali has released a beautiful and moving video about his upbringing in Sheffield, conveying some vital truths about the class unity needed to take on Britain’s establishment. It starts with Ali on a bus talking about a recent encounter in London: So, I was in London the […] By Robert Freeman

Israel lobby’s Green ‘WhatsApp antisemitism’ smear is itself antisemitic. Again

28 March 2026 @ 3:46 pm

Israel lobbyThe hard-right, ultra-Zionist and genocide-denying Telegraph‘s claim of an ‘antisemitic’ Green party WhatsApp group shows the Israel lobby’s desperation to halt the surge of Jewish leader Zack Polanski’s party. And it appears, yet again, that the Israel lobby has no qualms about being antisemitic in its tactics. Green activists called Jews ‘abominations’ in leaked WhatsApp […] By Skwawkbox