Fire off a racist, expletive-filled tweet urging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers and you get cheered on the stage at Reform’s conference as a ‘political prisoner’
Ian Birrell
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‘It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family” says Dr Aseem Malhotra at Reform’s party conference.
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Lush is a British retail success story that employs 12,000 people in 27 countries and, unusually, gives employees a voice in running the company. But this sneering buffoon thinks it should close for showing sympathy to people in Gaza enduring war crimes
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Free speech? Not with Reform UK and Nigel Farage…
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Just landed in the weird world of Reform UK’s conference to hear the racist historian David Starkey calling on Farage to impose a state of emergency if he wins the election. ‘I do not want to burn Angela Rayner alive’ he adds bizarrely.
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Almost everything Trump does puts a smile on Putin's face - now he is cutting back support for frontline democracies bordering expansionist Russia www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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How billionaires, celebrities and Gulf potentates are creaming off vast sums from the cash-strapped children’s care system - my Daily Mail investigation into obscene profiteering by private equity mol.im/a/15063255
How the super-rich profit from Britain's chaotic children's homes
Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.
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Jenrick critiques Powell on politics/popularity, not principle. This doesn't make much sense. Powell was popular 70% to 20% in 1968 but mobilised a climate of fear for migrants and minorities who faced a surge in racist abuse towards non-white minorities.
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How the super-rich profit from Britain’s chaotic children’s homes: special report by @ianbirrell.bsky.social
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How the super-rich profit from Britain's chaotic children's homes
Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.
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How billionaires, celebrities and Gulf potentates are creaming off vast sums from the cash-strapped children’s care system - my Daily Mail investigation into obscene profiteering by private equity mol.im/a/15063255
How the super-rich profit from Britain's chaotic children's homes
Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.