Author: Miles Donavan

“New Yorkers faced a clear choice – between hope and fear – and just like we’ve seen in London – hope won.” The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has congratulated Zohran Mamdani following his election victory in the New York mayoral race, which makes him the city’s youngest mayor since 1892, as well as its first Muslim and South Asian mayor. Despite repeated Islamophobic and bigoted attacks from the right-wing press as well as being labelled a ‘communist’ by Donald Trump who threw his weight behind Cuomo, Mamdani 34, defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Congratulating Mr…

Sultana denies delaying the transfer of funds, and says they will be sent once Your Party’s governance structures have been reviewed Zarah Sultana is being accused of delaying the transfer of £800,000 over to Your Party for politically motivated reasons. According to Politics Home, Your Party sources have claimed that Sultana is withholding the funds until she gets access to documents relating to the governance of Your Party. Sources close to Sultana have denied the allegations.  The rift in the party is between Sultana and the other five original members of the group of Independent Alliance MPs – Jeremy Corbyn,…

After Andy Burnham’s challenge to the Labour leadership, what is next for the new soft left project? The highly successful mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, was a prominent figure in the recent launch of Mainstream, a new soft left group set up by centre-left think tank Compass and Open Labour. As one of the big Labour names involved, alongside Lord Alf Dubs, Momentum founder Jon Lansman and Labour MPs Clive Lewis, Dawn Butler, Clive Efford and Alex Sobel, he quickly became closely associated with the project. Then came the rumours of an insurgence just before Labour conference. Burnham’s name…

Yusuf tried to avoid answering the question, saying he’d never met Gill, but Derbyshire persisted. Reform’s Zia Yusuf endured a humiliating interview on Newsnight after being questioned about Russian links to his party, after one of its politicians was convicted of taking bribes for making statements in favour of the country. Farage has previously expressed his admiration for Putin, saying he ‘admires’ the despot. In September, Nathan Gill – who had previously served as a UKIP MEP under Nigel Farage and as Reform’s leader in Wales – was convicted on eight counts of bribery for taking payments to make statements…

Tice said Reform hadn’t pledged to cut council tax, but several local election leaflets prove otherwise Reform’s deputy leader got caught out on Times Radio after denying that his party had pledged to cut people’s council tax bills. On Times Radio, Richard Tice said that a Times headline which said that Reform promised to bring council tax down is “simply untrue” and “has to be corrected”. The article headline stated: “Reform councils to raise tax for 2m households despite pledging cuts.” “We said we would save money, I’ll be giving a press conference in two weeks’ time about that, but…

“This open antisemitism is part of Reform’s wider far right and racist politics that must be called out.” Reform UK has been blasted for sharing an antisemitic AI-generated image of Green Party leader Zack Polanski. The image, created using AI and shared by Reform UK’s Brighton and Hove branch last Friday for Halloween, distorted Polanski’s features using the same antisemitic stereotypes once pushed by Nazi propaganda. Polanski’s ancestors fled pogroms in Latvia for Ukraine, before being forced to flee again to Poland, where they faced the Nazis. They eventually sought refuge in England, where they faced more antisemitism. Campaign group…

“They were shamelessly trying to turn tragedy into yet another excuse to whip up fear and sew division.” An MP used an intervention in Parliament to hit out at the Reform politicians and ‘hard right’ figures for using the Huntingdon train attack for ‘political gain’ and to ‘whip up fear’. Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson told MPs that the right-wing politicians’ speculation over the race and ethnicity of the perpetrator had incited racist comments. Wilkinson added that they used the knife attack which took place at Huntingdon, on the Doncaster-London LNER service, to “shamelessly [try] to turn tragedy…

So much for Farage being a ‘man of the people’. Reform UK clearly holds younger people in contempt after party leader Nigel Farage suggested that that the minimum wage may be “too high” for younger workers, as he laid out his party’s plans for the economy in a major speech yesterday. Alongside u-turning on his party’s promise to cut taxes, Farage also laid out a return to austerity as he vowed to bring public spending under control. He also refused to commit to the triple lock on pensions. Asked whether he thought the minimum wage was too high, Farage said:…

Musk pushed more falsehoods about Britain Tech billionaire Elon Musk has once more turned his attention to the UK, spreading more lies about the country and has been accused of inciting violence, leading to calls for him to be investigated by the police. Musk, recently drew criticism from the government in recent months after his appearance at a rally organised by far-right thug Tommy Robinson, at which violent disorder occurred with police officers attacked. He told the rally via video link to “fight back” or “die”. Now, in a bizarre rant he has compared the UK to JRR Tolkien’s Lord…

Farage also ruled out protecting the state pension triple lock Nigel Farage has been condemned for hinting at cutting public sector workers’ pensions. In an interview earlier this morning, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice suggested public sector pensions would be at risk under a Reform government.  Tice told Politico journalist Dan Bloom:  “You’re not asking about the much, much bigger issue, right – which is, how long can we carry on offering defined benefit pensions to all public sector workers?”. Speaking from Banking Hall in the City of London, Farage was asked by ITV News journalist Joel Hills whether he…