Author: Miles Donavan

‘If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators.’ Nigel Farage has declared that Reform UK would repeal legislation designed to regulate online content that is “illegal” or “deemed harmful to children”. Farage’s comments about the Online Safety Act did not go down well with the Science Secretary, Peter Kyle, who has strongly criticised the Reform leader’s stance. In a Sky News interview, Kyle said that Farage was effectively siding with pornographers and pedophiles like Jimmy Savile by vowing to scrap the law. The Science Secretary said: “I see that Nigel Farage is…

“He’d see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker; richer, not poorer.” Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has hit back at Donald Trump’s comments calling him a ‘nasty person’, reminding the President that a ‘record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship under his presidency’. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the Mayor of London, has reignited his feud with Khan during his private trip to Scotland. The President was asked at news conference with Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland whether he would visit London during his state visit in September, Trump replied: “I will, I’m not a fan…

It comes at a time when the Tories continue to trail Reform in the polls, with figures released earlier this month showing that the Tory party had lost 8,000 members since Badenoch became leader. At least when the cameras are off, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is able to admit the truth: That the Tories have hit rock bottom! A leaked recording obtained by the London Economic, of Badenoch speaking at a Westminster Gala Dinner to party donors, activists, and senior members, hears her tell those gathered that returning to parliament after last year’s election defeat felt worse than New Labour’s…

‘I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder.’ Manuela Perteghella is the Liberal Democrat MP for Stratford-on-Avon There is something rotten at the heart of modern politics The influence of money over our democratic system is no longer a creeping threat, rather a crisis. It rarely leads the news, but it corrodes everything. I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder. I came here to serve, to represent people, not power. In fact, I came into politics to speak truth to power. Russian oligarchs. Tech tycoons.…

“She’s obviously a fan of North Korea and China.” Having failed the NHS for 15 years, the Tories are now proposing legislation to ban NHS doctors from going on strike, in what’s been slammed as a ‘desperate intervention’. Badenoch has said that should the Tories return to power, they would introduce legislation for minimum service levels and block doctors taking widespread industrial action. It comes after resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, began five days of strike action on Friday, with BMA members manning picket lines across the country. They have been given a 5.4% pay rise for this…

The move is being framed by Trump allies as a crackdown on what they see as left-leaning bias in artificial intelligence systems. In the latest volley in the ongoing culture war, President Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order that would effectively blacklist tech companies from receiving federal contracts unless their AI systems are deemed “politically neutral.” First reported in the Wall Street Journal, the move is being framed by Trump allies as a crackdown on what they see as left-leaning bias in artificial intelligence systems. The policy is being driven by David Sacks, a cryptocurrency advocate and investor who, earlier this…

Despite all the mockery, polling has suggested a new party led by Corbyn could command up to 15% of the vote. Glancing over the front pages of UK newspapers on July 25, the day after Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana officially launched their new political party, it was hardly surprising to find that just one paper gave the story any space at all. The Guardian tucked a small box at the bottom of its front page, noting the launch and quoting a joint statement from the pair encouraging supporters to register their interest. That was it. Now, contrast that with the media…

“It’s concerning to hear that some individuals might celebrate a move away from anti-racism gestures in football.” News that the England women’s football team will no longer take the knee before matches was not only welcomed but openly celebrated by Nigel Farage. As keenly reported by the Daily Mail, Farage “rejoiced at the Lionesses’ decision to stop taking the knee, claiming they have finally seen sense by abandoning the ‘crazy gesture’.” The team’s decision came after England defender Jess Carter was subjected to racist abuse online. In response, Carter announced she would be stepping away from social media. In a…

Perhaps the most troubling aspect isn’t just having to watch Clacton’s elusive MP reel off his contempt for anything he deems ‘woke,’ it’s that businesses are doing exactly what these right-wing populists want. As Parliament heads into its summer recess, Right-Wing Watch is also taking a break. We’ll be back in early September, rested, recharged, and ready to take on whatever chaos and nonsense the right throws our way. It seems only fitting, then, that we end this series with a look at the most brash and divisive figure in British politics and his Trump-like antics – Nigel Farage, and one of…

A low-profile by-election in rural Staffordshire may signal a shift that’s gone largely unnoticed. On July 17, voters in the small Staffordshire town of Eccleshall went to the polls to elect a new county councillor, following the resignation of Reform UK’s Wayne Titley, just two weeks after he was elected in May’s local elections. Titley was part of a sweeping Reform success that saw the party take control of Staffordshire County Council in the May local elections. But he quickly stepped down amid a backlash over a Facebook post in which he called for the Navy to intercept small boats…