Author: Miles Donavan

“What we have been seeing online in recent days has been absolutely appalling, and unacceptable in decent society.” Elon Musk’s X has been slapped down by the technology secretary Liz Kendall, after thousands of “deepfakes” images sexualising women and children appeared on the platform over the new year period. Grok AI, Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, is still being used to digitally undress and produce degrading images, predominantly of women and minors.  This is despite the social media platform having pledged to suspend users who generate them. Yesterday, Kendall warned the world’s richest man that “the UK will not tolerate the…

“Bombing a sovereign nation and kidnapping its president is a blatant and flagrant violation of international law” Your Party MP Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the prime minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government for their response to Donald Trump’s kidnapping of the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. Starmer has said that the his government believes “we should all uphold international law”, but has stopped short of condemning the actions of the USA. Corbyn said that this was ‘staggering’ and argued it showed the government is ‘completely devoid of morality’. Corbyn said: “Bombing a sovereign nation and kidnapping its president…

“The only company which appears to currently be active – a consulting firm in his name – is now also late filing its returns.” Yet another Reform UK politician has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, for having at least 10 companies struck off for breaking company law. Far from being the company of law and order, Byline Times has revealed that Paul Donaghy, who stood for the North East Mayoral post and in the Washington & Gateshead South constituency last year and who remains the Washington & Gateshead South Chairman, has had 10 companies struck off for…

Their  decision to wreck the existing world order can be stopped but it will not happen if governments like ours choose to shelter under the Eagle’s wings. Jon Trickett is the Labour MP for Hemsworth The facts and the immediate response to the American assault on the Venezuelan government are well known. But we need to see the action not simply as the fevered imagination and irrational mind of Donald Trump. The truth is that the US National Security Strategy published in November spelt out precisely and in chilling detail what Washington intends to do. It is a document written…

The High Pay Centre data also shows that the median FTSE 100 CEO’s pay packet had gone up by 4.22% from £4.22 million last year. In yet more evidence of just how unequal our country is, new data published today shows that the bosses of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2026 before midday on Tuesday than the average worker will all year. The data, released by the High Pay Centre think tank, found that the median annual pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.4m, 113 times higher than the £39,039 earned by the median full-time…

“Unabashed media bias.” Nigel Farage will miss Prime Minister’s Questions again tomorrow to appear on Times Radio’s ‘alternative version’, PMQs Unpacked. Critics have pointed out that while Farage should be in the House of Commons for PMQs tomorrow, he will instead be getting more media coverage. Farage will join Times journalists Hugo Rifkind and Patrick Maguire at midday tomorrow to analyse the exchange between Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch. Don McGowan, a freelance journalist, criticised Times Radio for giving Farage more airtime when he should be in the Commons. He wrote: “This is utterly ludicrous. Farage is paid — by…

The ex-Reform councillor has accused Nigel Farage of turning his focus away from Doncaster, even though the party is performing well there A former Reform UK councillor in Doncaster, Christopher Marriott, has defected from Nigel Farage’s party to Advance UK. Marriott is the second Reform city councillor in Doncaster to defect to ex-Reform member Ben Habib’s far-right party, Advance UK.  Habib formed the party after he fell out with Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf. Far-right, Islamophobic campaigner Tommy Robinson is now a member of Advance UK.  Former Reform councillor on Doncaster City Council, Nicola Brown, defected to Advance UK in…

The demand to reverse Brexit continues to grow A majority of British people would like to see the UK rejoin the EU if another Brexit referendum was held. Almost a decade on from the 2016 Brexit vote, a new Deltapoll Survey for the Mirror has revealed that nearly six in ten (58%) of people who would vote in a second referendum would vote for the UK to rejoin the EU. Support for reversing Brexit was highest among 18-24-year-olds, with more than eight in 10 (86%) saying they would vote to rejoin the bloc. Older voters were less likely to support…

“I stand with her. She’s right about the future of Greenland.” Prime Minister Keir Starmer has backed the Danish Prime Minister over the future of Greenland, after President Trump again suggested the US could take it over. Trump’s comments came after he used military force in Venezuela to capture its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The Trump administration attacked Venezuela on Saturday, saying that the US will now “run” Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” can be ensured. The US president has also said US oil companies would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money…

‘Nothing screams ‘patriot’ like asking a foreign President, Donald Trump, to invade your country.’ Far-right agitator Tommy Robinson’s “patriotic” credentials have been called into question after he called on Donald Trump to invade the UK and remove Keir Starmer as prime minister.  Following Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and removal of its President, Nicolás Maduro, Robinson has made a series of posts describing Starmer as “tyrannical dictator” and calling on Trump to “free us”. Trump’s attacks on Venezuela have been met with condemnation by the politicians and experts, who have said they were illegal.  On X, Robinson, whose real name…