Rats in a Sack
20 December 2024
Owen Jones’s non-apology for liking anti-Semitic bile
The Guardian columnist wrote a 9,000 word rant on the BBC’s sloppiness over the Israel/Hamas war, then failed to read a 37-word anti-Semitic comment – which he then liked
Read the full article20 December 2024
The immaculate conception of Allison Pearson
A recent social media rant by the Telegraph columnist about Hugo Rifkind, the Times writer, contained a stunning revelation
Read the full article20 December 2024
Paul McCartney and the worst birthday party in Britain
While the music legend was playing the O2, a gathering worthy of The New European’s Shit List was taking place in Westminster
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The Telegraph goes radio gaga
The ailing broadsheet has become fixated with a losing candidate for the top position – and not for the first time
Read the full article18 December 2024
How you and I handed Boris Johnson an extra £183,000
The former prime minister is claiming tens of thousands of pounds in state support to pay for a role in public life
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Lib Dems minds already turning to next leader
While Ed Davey faces an uncontested leadership election, a more interesting poll looms next year
Read the full article17 December 2024
Does anyone want to stump up for the Telegraph?
The number of people willing to pay the price tag for the titles is rapidly dwindling
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Careful now: anti-woke Linehan and Doyle head for America
The Father Ted creator and GB News commentator are off to America in search of "artistic freedom"
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Peer’s punishment is like China’s Cultural Revolution, claims Daniel Hannan
The 'Brain of Brexit' has compared a colleague's suspension from the Lords for racist language to a violent revolution which cost up to two million lives
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Farage’s second jobs pile up again
Reform’s leader has just revealed the extent of his work outside Parliament in the Commons’ Register of Members’ Financial Interests
Read the full article12 December 2024
Kemi Badenoch, Wall Street con men and the Mother of Dragons
Why does the leader of the Conservative Party have such a disturbing set of role models?
Read the full article11 December 2024
Tice accuses son of Holocaust survivor of ‘wanting to experiment with bodies’
The Reform deputy leader used disgusting language to attack Daniel Finkelstein for questioning his conspiracy theories about butter
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No way for Jay as Observer HQ event cancelled
A sold-out event at the Guardian's London headquarters with the Observer's departing food writer has been mysteriously cancelled
Read the full article10 December 2024
Jay Rayner’s return offers food for thought at Guardian HQ
The food writer who quit the Observer in November is making a temporary comeback at King’s Place
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The donations Reform has been forced to turn down
Nigel Farage’s party has had to snub nearly £70,000 of funding
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Why so triggered, Lee Anderson?
Jokes on the Have I Got News For You Twitter account were too much for the thin-skinned and thick-headed Reform MP
Read the full article10 December 2024
The BBC’s war on ‘talent’
The corporation dropped the word to avoid offending off-air staff – but now can’t agree on a new one
Read the full article06 December 2024
Mounting fury as the Observer is sold while its staff strike
More walkouts could follow as a deal with Tortoise grows closer
Read the full article05 December 2024
The one thing Reform MPs really care about
Rupert Lowe has tried to write about the UK economy. Among all the mistakes, a single priority shines through
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Allister Heath, the Telegraph’s Chicken Little
The editor and columnist seems to believe we are permanently tottering on the edge of the apocalypse
Read the full article04 December 2024
The Reform party’s descent into chaos
Nigel Farage may have picked up an award but his MPs are proving tricky to manage
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Irony-meter explodes as Guardian hacks offered people management skills course
As journalists at the newspaper strike, it's offering advice on how best to handle staff
Read the full article03 December 2024
Something fishy about Richard Tice’s latest claim
Reform's deputy leader declared only his party would protect British fishing - yet when the Commons debated it, he was nowhere to be seen
Read the full article02 December 2024
Nigel and the Nazis
Farage is launching a new magazine – but who’s allowed to write for it, and who isn’t?
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Ignore the old men, Observer hacks told
Outrageous sexism and ageism abounds in media news this week. And for once it’s not Gregg Wallace
Read the full article29 November 2024
Rees-Mogg deliberately misses the point on migration
The soon-to-be reality TV star used a Question Time appearance to peddle some decidedly dodgy figures
Read the full article28 November 2024
Another new job to stop Farage thinking about Clacton
The part-time MP has joined an anti-World Health Organization pressure group
Read the full article28 November 2024
The Evening Standard’s editor takes one last trip
Dylan Jones, who hacks resented over his jaunts, has stepped down
Read the full article28 November 2024
Scott Trust not yet sold on Observer deal
The Sunday paper’s controversial sale by Guardian Media Group to a loss-making startup may founder at boardroom level amid concern about failure to examine other options
Read the full article28 November 2024
Shit List is fascism, claims GB News’ Grimes
The fashion degree drop-out turned rabble-rouser mocks our "pearl-clutching" - then compares the annual list to the violent political creed
Read the full article27 November 2024
TV’s Ed Balls hides his lights under a bushel
The Good Morning Britain presenter is the star attraction at a Christmas switch-on but there's something missing from his CV
Read the full article27 November 2024
Smoking fan Farage picks TV gig over Commons vote on smoking ban
The Clacton MP didn’t turn up for the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, appearing on GB News instead
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