Author: Miles Donavan

‘Guess we now know why Farage seems to make only cameo appearances in Parliament and Clacton’ Nigel Farage has come under fire for spending the equivalent of 25 eight-hour working days, or five regular working weeks, recording personalised videos on Cameo since the 2024 general election. According to an investigation by The National, entries in the MPs’ register of interests show that the Reform leader has worked an estimated 199 hours and raked in a staggering £154,775 from the video-sharing app.  The website allows fans to purchase personalised video messages from celebrities, athletes, influencers, and other public figures. Farage’s personalised…

MPs are calling for Pochin to be suspended Reform MP Sarah Pochin has been slammed for making ‘racist’ comments on TalkTV on Saturday.  Responding to a caller who complained about diversity on television and in advertising, Pochin said: “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people that are anything other than white.” Asked by the presenter what was wrong with that, Pochin said: “Your average white person, your average white family is like, I agree with you Stuart, not represented.” The presenter responded: “There are lots of white people…

“What we have seen is a return of 1970s and 1980s-style racism I thought we had left in the history books. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said that Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments about how it ‘drives her mad seeing adverts full of Black and Asian people’ were racist as he also slammed Nigel Farage for not speaking out. Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Streeting said that Pochin had only said sorry “because she’s been caught and called out”. Pochin had made her racist and hateful remarks during a TalkTV phone-in on Saturday, in which she said that ‘it…

“The reality is that young people are finding the finances very, very difficult.” The government recently announced that maintenance grants will return for some students from lower-income households by 2029 in England. The grants will apply to “tens of thousands” of students, targeted at those “studying priority courses that support the industrial strategy and the Labour government’s wider mission to renew Britain,” said education secretary Bridget Phillipson at the Labour Party conference. Funding for the grants will come from a tax on international student fees, applying only to higher education providers in England. The grants are designed to cover living…

Holding two key ministerial posts and pushing substantive reforms, particularly in pensions, the MP for Swansea West is making some on the right nervous. “Ed Miliband is no longer the most dangerous man in government,” splashed pensions expert Tom McPhail in the Times this week. It’s an attention-grabbing headline designed to make you click. So, who, exactly, has replaced Miliband as public enemy number one? Before naming names, the piece opens with a familiar swipe at Miliband, accusing him of pushing up costs and weakening energy security by championing renewables. Then comes the punchline: Torsten Bell, former Miliband aide, ex-director of the Resolution…

“This is what GB News considers news.” The Green Party has just overtaken the Conservatives in membership numbers, becoming the third-largest political party in the UK. It’s a historic milestone in British politics, but you wouldn’t know it if you relied on GB News for your ‘news.’ Rather than report the news that Zack Polanski shared during his appearance on BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, GB News took a different angle, one that’s depressingly familiar. “Jeremy Clarkson annihilates Zack Polanski as he rips into Green Party leader: ‘Can’t even sort out your own teeth!’” it headlined. The article was…

The legendary vegetable has been formally recognised as a part of British cultural history. October 20 marked three years since Liz Truss resigned after just 49 days in office. While most national outlets ignored the anniversary, the Daily Star, the tabloid behind the infamous lettuce meme, made sure it didn’t go unnoticed. The newspaper became globally synonymous with Truss in 2022 after it livestreamed a 60p Tesco iceberg lettuce placed beside a framed photo of the embattled PM, asking: “Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?” When Truss resigned on October 20 that year, the Star triumphantly declared the lettuce the victor. Now, that…

We should have learned from Brexit, which weakened Britain in every sense. Now the same voices want to abandon the ECHR. We know where that road will lead. The tide may finally be turning on Brexit. “The past doesn’t have to define the future, but we must acknowledge the damage Brexit caused,” said Rachel Reeves this week. The Chancellor even suggested Brexit’s economic impact has been worse than critics predicted at the time. Reeves’ remarks are the latest in a series of interventions that signal a growing confidence among ministers in openly criticising Brexit. But while the government starts to…

“Is this an AI hallucination?” Appearing on BBC Breakfast on October 20, Piers Morgan was quizzed on whether he would ever run for prime minister. True to form, the outspoken broadcaster seized the moment to launch a tirade against the current political class, labelling MPs as “shockingly mediocre” and pining for a bygone era when, according to him, parliament was “full of smart people who had all done things in the real world.” “I don’t get that sense any more”, he added. Characteristically provocative, Morgan argued that politicians should be paid “very high salaries” to attract better talent, pointing to…

We must demand an end to these shifting political norms When Nigel Farage stood before the press last month, he brandished a few pages carrying his proposal to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain. These plans are nothing short of chilling and a threat to the futures of hundreds of thousands of people.   Stripping away one of the most fundamental and hard-earned routes to permanent settlement in the UK is as cruel as it is legally incoherent. It risks violating basic human rights, including the right to family life and protections from non-discrimination. Worse still, it also puts conditionality on people who have settled, built…