Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP More than £170m was given to MPs, political parties, media organisations and thinktanks aligned with the UK’s populist right over the past five years, new research from the Labour MP Liam Byrne has found. Byrne, a former cabinet minister who chairs parliament’s business committee, said he had identified a “media-political complex” funded largely by a handful of billionaires. Continue reading...

In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

Reform deputy leader’s trip, worth £1,4000, to Lubov Chernukhin’s property was for ‘discussing gas power in UK’

Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

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As Reform gathers for its conference, momentum builds for ditching the European convention on human rights. It would be a disaster, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Activists from Homeland party, which split from Patriotic Alternative, set up groups to spread protests beyond Epping Members of a far-right nationalist party are helping to organise protests outside hotels used to house asylum seekers across the UK, according to a series of Facebook posts and groups created in recent weeks. Activists for the Homeland party, which was formed as a splinter organisation from Patriotic Alternative, Britain’s biggest far-right group, have set up a number of online groups in an attempt to spread the protests that recently engulfed a hotel in Epping. Continue reading...

Change Minds → Change Politics

“Do I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?” Thus spoke Nigel Farage in an interview with The Times in February 2024, about which the reporter wrote: “H...

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Exclusive: Barnardo’s says number of family hubs and children’s centres has plummeted – with ‘postcode lottery of support’ Community support for struggling families in England has declined significantly over the past 15 years, with data revealing that the availability of specialist children’s services has plummeted by over a third. The number of family hubs and children’s centres in England has reduced by more than a third since 2009, while spending on centres was cut by almost £1.4bn between 2010/11 and 2023/24, according to freedom of information data compiled from 108 local authorities by the charity Barnardo’s. Access varies according to region in a “postcode lottery of support”, the charity said. Continue reading...

For far too long asylum seekers, and immigrants of all kinds, have been demonised. Their existence weaponised for political gain, their struggles ignored in favour of a narrative designed to stoke…

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High Pay Centre thinktank says median pay of FTSE 350 chief executive was £2.5m in 2023-24 financial year The chief executive of a FTSE 350 company is paid 52 times as much as a typical worker, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees. Median pay for FTSE 350 chief executives was £2.5m last year, which works out at 52 times a median worker’s pay, according to a new report from the High Pay Centre campaign group. Continue reading...