A by-election was meant to reset the debate. Instead, with no major party contesting Clacton, scrutiny has remained fixed on...

Reform’s ideological glow-up collides with Rupert Lowe’s insurgency – and first-past-the-post will inevitably punish them both

X’s AI tools producing sexualised deepfakes spark UK debate on safety, accountability and whether access should end

A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce – and how 2026...

£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning

We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them

Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow...

The Conservatives’ collapse into outrage politics isn’t just their downfall – it threatens Britain’s democracy and stability too

Reform’s “Boriswave” slogan masks cruelty, cooked-up data, and echoes of Trumpist authoritarianism

In the age of Farage, Trump and Johnson, deception became currency and scandal marketing strategy

Staffing gaps, medicine shortages and avoidable harm – the everyday reality of a broken Brexit promise

Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary...

From Empire to the NHS, this country has always relied on outsiders. The real crisis isn’t migration – it’s dishonesty

Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain

From Epping to Facebook groups, how fear is being repackaged and pointed downwards and never up

First they rewrite the past. Then they sell off the future. The NHS is next

A cherry-picked calculation, a broken labour market, and a government using tabloid outrage as cover for cuts. Welcome to austerity...

The systematic destruction of Gaza’s hospitals is not just barbarism, it’s a moral line crossed forever

A single Glastonbury chant shattered the illusion of free speech, exposing Britain's fragile moral panic machine

Britain’s 1976 heatwave was an outlier in a stable climate – not proof today’s crisis is normal

Reform UK blames inefficiency for public failures, but real scrutiny starts with data, not Twitter outrage. Here's why...

Truth once ended the charade. Now it’s content. The emperor’s still naked – and they’re still applauding

Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government

Letter to the editor

Forty-seven people were injured. The facts were clear. But the far-right had already written the script

Everything you need to know about the new Brexit Deal, why Farage hates it, and what’s next

Labour promises cuts to migration – but without a plan, care homes, hospitals and families will suffer

Reform UK trades on national nostalgia – but behind the slogans lies regression, not renewal or reform