Redemption or Rebrand?

Kemi Badenoch's defence of Joshua Bonehill-Paine (aka 'Crewkerne Man')

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Abdul El-Sayed leads anti-war sweep in Michigan; Israel raids Qalandia refugee camp; Russian strikes kill 17 in Kyiv

Drop Site Daily: August 5, 2026

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The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

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BBC Evening News Covers Guga Hunt Victory!

Protect the Wild reacts to the landmark licence refusal on BBC Scotland.

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Charity Commission to investigate donations to illegal Israeli settlements

Official action by regulator for England and Wales comes after formal complaint made by Labour MP about the funds

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BBC Axed Report on British Army Killing Unarmed Child in Derry

The UK government successfully lobbied the BBC to axe a report revealing the British Army killed an unarmed child in Derry during the Troubles in 1972, newly released documents reveal.

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Overwhelming majority of Labour members believe Burnham has improved party's chances for next general election - LabourList

Exclusive LabourList polling carried out by Survation provides insight into how Labour Party members predict the next UK general election...

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Nigel Farage’s Clacton by-election may cost the taxpayer a quarter of a million pounds

Taxpayers will foot the bill for Farage's costly by-election stunt

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Who is in the running for the leadership of Scottish Labour?

Three candidates have thrown their hat into the ring

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MPs back Good Law Project’s legal challenge against new single-sex spaces guidance

The Good Law Project has said the new code of practice, which came into force today, is “immensely harmful” and “unlawful”

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Zack Polanski brands climate crisis ‘biggest threat since Second World War’ and demands ‘full-scale emergency response’ from Andy Burnham

The Green Party accused the government of an 'astonishing dereliction of duty'

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Kemi Badenoch squirms in car-crash interview over the former neo-Nazi who’s standing as a Tory candidate

Badenoch said the former neo-Nazi is 'fighting for Jewish people'

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Luciana Berger condemns Kemi Badenoch’s decision to allow former neo-Nazi to stand as Tory candidate

Berger, who was subjected to a campaign of abuse by Joshua Bonehill-Paine, said that the Tory leader had "got this very, very wrong"

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"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations

Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF’s Washington office.

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Tell FERC - Reject the Mountain Valley Pipeline Expansion

Local organizing stopped a major fossil-fuel project in Virginia—for now. Help make sure federal regulators do not revive it. Sign the letter to reject the MVP Boost!

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The Chapra Nation Is Powering Its Own Future | Amazon Watch

This month, Amazon Watch and the Chapra Nation fulfilled a dream years in the making: we brought solar energy, freezers, and internet connectivity to 12 communities across Chapra territory.

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Abdul El-Sayed Knows Just How to Beat Billionaire-Funded Republicans

His ability to hit hard against powerful moneyed interests makes him electable.

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U.S. crowdsources ideas on Iran; Gaza holds mass funeral for 112 killed in 2023; Board of Peace contradicts itself

Drop Site Daily: August 4, 2026

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Burnham Has a Choice: Drop the Palestine Action Ban or Be Cursed by It | Steven Methven

Britain’s new prime minister should be looking at the Palestine Action ban and thinking: why should I pay for the last idiot’s blunders? Steven Methven writes.

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Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails

£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport * Business live – latest updates Gatwick airport is to start development of its second runway after campaigners lost a legal challenge to the plans. The court of appeal on Tuesday dismissed a bid by local campaign groups to challenge an earlier high court ruling that the scheme could proceed. Continue reading...

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New poll shows Count Binface has support of 20% of Clacton voters

1 in five plan to back Binface

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Kemi Badenoch defends selection of former neo-Nazi as Tory candidate

Nigel Farage criticised Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s selection, unaware he had previously been cleared to stand as a Reform candidate

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Reform deputy leader Richard Tice under investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog

Tice was furious that the news overshadowed Reform’s press conference yesterday

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Reform UK slammed over unworkable plan to use the Navy to send small boats back to France

Reform seems to have ignored the fact that their policy would break international law…

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I am sick of wearing the Gannet costume..

That was really hard.

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It's the end of Reform as we know it

A bad few months for Nigel Farage's insurgent party has shown their true colours

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Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway

Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...

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