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ANALYSIS: Conservative defections risk making Reform UK into Tory party 2.0 - Nadhim Zahawi’s ministerial experience is badly needed by Nigel Farage but it comes with former party’s tainted brand
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Conservative defections risk making Reform UK into Tory party 2.0
Nadhim Zahawi’s ministerial experience is badly needed by Nigel Farage but it comes with his former party’s tainted brand
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
ANALYSIS: Conservative defections risk making Reform UK into Tory party 2.0 - Nadhim Zahawi’s ministerial experience is badly needed by Nigel Farage but it comes with former party’s tainted brand
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 24% (-2)
CON: 20% (+1)
LAB: 19% (+2)
LDM: 16% (=)
GRN: 14% (-2)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 11-12 Jan.
Changes w/ 4-5 Jan.
RFM: 24% (-2)
CON: 20% (+1)
LAB: 19% (+2)
LDM: 16% (=)
GRN: 14% (-2)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 11-12 Jan.
Changes w/ 4-5 Jan.
January 13, 2026 at 8:51 AM
➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.
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Imagine loving the racism Musk’s X provides & encourages so much that you can’t call out its creation & promotion of child sex abuse images…
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Imagine loving the racism Musk’s X provides & encourages so much that you can’t call out its creation & promotion of child sex abuse images…
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
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"[Farage's] presence felt like constant noise. The persona he had adopted was destructive and intolerant of anything non-British. He wasn’t very good at anything – no great orator, charismatic, or engaging. Being vitriolic was the only way he’d get noticed."
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them | Rickard Berg
I remember him as a racist bully, and his allegation that other ex-Dulwich boys and I are liars tells me he hasn’t changed, says former Dulwich college pupil Rickard Berg
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
"[Farage's] presence felt like constant noise. The persona he had adopted was destructive and intolerant of anything non-British. He wasn’t very good at anything – no great orator, charismatic, or engaging. Being vitriolic was the only way he’d get noticed."
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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Farage’s political “revolution” seems to be almost entirely staffed by former Tories who are the cause of the problems he’s now trying to fix
Farage’s Tory recycling scheme
And why it will surely backfire...
writesbright.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Farage’s political “revolution” seems to be almost entirely staffed by former Tories who are the cause of the problems he’s now trying to fix
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Never forget: the people who hate their country most are those who style themselves "patriots".
January 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Never forget: the people who hate their country most are those who style themselves "patriots".
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❤️🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
❤️🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.
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I see that famous tax dodger and prominent figure in several Tory governments, Nadhim Zahawi who claimed his horse stables’ heating bill on parliamentary expenses has defecated to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, immediately slagging off the party he was begging for a peerage only weeks ago.
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I see that famous tax dodger and prominent figure in several Tory governments, Nadhim Zahawi who claimed his horse stables’ heating bill on parliamentary expenses has defecated to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, immediately slagging off the party he was begging for a peerage only weeks ago.
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Nigel Farage thinks Nadhim Zahawi has no principles and Nadhim Zahawi thinks Nigel Farage makes racist comments. Why are they suddenly pals?
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Nigel Farage thinks Nadhim Zahawi has no principles and Nadhim Zahawi thinks Nigel Farage makes racist comments. Why are they suddenly pals?
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It is so strange that crime doesn’t occur where people don’t live.
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
It is so strange that crime doesn’t occur where people don’t live.
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It's not voters fault.
It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.
It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.
January 10, 2026 at 11:07 PM
It's not voters fault.
It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.
It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.
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Badenoch is fascinating. So busy fighting culture wars online that she considers the very real potential for the break-up of the military alliance on which the UK relies for security to be a fringe issue.
Kemi Badenoch describes Greenland as a “second-order issue” in BBC interview.
The US threatening to annex a Nato territory is anything but that.
The US threatening to annex a Nato territory is anything but that.
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Badenoch is fascinating. So busy fighting culture wars online that she considers the very real potential for the break-up of the military alliance on which the UK relies for security to be a fringe issue.
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A global shift to plant-based diets could free an area of land as big as the US, China, the EU and Australia combined: restored ecosystems could draw down CO2, making our diets carbon negative. Average food emissions per person would be reduced from about 2,000 kg CO2eq/year to -160 kg CO2eq/year.
From nuts to kelp: The 'carbon-negative' foods that help reverse climate change
Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 7:04 AM
A global shift to plant-based diets could free an area of land as big as the US, China, the EU and Australia combined: restored ecosystems could draw down CO2, making our diets carbon negative. Average food emissions per person would be reduced from about 2,000 kg CO2eq/year to -160 kg CO2eq/year.
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Ah yes... Lord "Ha Ha" that famous Nazi sympathiser.
If I remember correctly, he was the chap who put all those fiendish ditches in at stately homes.
Great to see Reform's mayoral candidate is on top of her history.
If I remember correctly, he was the chap who put all those fiendish ditches in at stately homes.
Great to see Reform's mayoral candidate is on top of her history.
January 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Ah yes... Lord "Ha Ha" that famous Nazi sympathiser.
If I remember correctly, he was the chap who put all those fiendish ditches in at stately homes.
Great to see Reform's mayoral candidate is on top of her history.
If I remember correctly, he was the chap who put all those fiendish ditches in at stately homes.
Great to see Reform's mayoral candidate is on top of her history.
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ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.
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Views of Twitter/X in Britain
Favourable 14% (3% very favourable)
Unfavourable 65% (37% very unfavourable)
By gender
Men 16-65 (-49)
Women 10-64 (-54)
By 2024 vote
Reform 23-46 (-23)
Cons 17-57 (-40)
Labour 10-76 (-66)
LibDem 6-79 (-73)
Green 5-89 (-84)
YouGov: V similar Jan 2025/Jan 2026
Favourable 14% (3% very favourable)
Unfavourable 65% (37% very unfavourable)
By gender
Men 16-65 (-49)
Women 10-64 (-54)
By 2024 vote
Reform 23-46 (-23)
Cons 17-57 (-40)
Labour 10-76 (-66)
LibDem 6-79 (-73)
Green 5-89 (-84)
YouGov: V similar Jan 2025/Jan 2026
January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Views of Twitter/X in Britain
Favourable 14% (3% very favourable)
Unfavourable 65% (37% very unfavourable)
By gender
Men 16-65 (-49)
Women 10-64 (-54)
By 2024 vote
Reform 23-46 (-23)
Cons 17-57 (-40)
Labour 10-76 (-66)
LibDem 6-79 (-73)
Green 5-89 (-84)
YouGov: V similar Jan 2025/Jan 2026
Favourable 14% (3% very favourable)
Unfavourable 65% (37% very unfavourable)
By gender
Men 16-65 (-49)
Women 10-64 (-54)
By 2024 vote
Reform 23-46 (-23)
Cons 17-57 (-40)
Labour 10-76 (-66)
LibDem 6-79 (-73)
Green 5-89 (-84)
YouGov: V similar Jan 2025/Jan 2026
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Farage has declared £9,663 in total payments from X, Tice has earned £5,770, and Lee Anderson £3,871. They are the only MPs who have declared payments from the social media website apart from Rupert Lowe (ex Reform) who has earned £40,000 from posting on X since his election last year.
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Farage has declared £9,663 in total payments from X, Tice has earned £5,770, and Lee Anderson £3,871. They are the only MPs who have declared payments from the social media website apart from Rupert Lowe (ex Reform) who has earned £40,000 from posting on X since his election last year.
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
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AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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The islands of Little Diomede (U.S.) and Big Diomede (Russia), are just 2.4 miles apart and when the sea freezes you can walk between them
Russia is already America's neighbour
Russia is already America's neighbour
Trump says he doesn’t want Russia as a neighbour. Could someone remind him about the Bering Strait?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 10, 2026 at 9:23 AM
The islands of Little Diomede (U.S.) and Big Diomede (Russia), are just 2.4 miles apart and when the sea freezes you can walk between them
Russia is already America's neighbour
Russia is already America's neighbour
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A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
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Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.
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The threat to shut X in the UK is a threat to the whole far right ecosystem.
They're going to throw everything at stopping it because they know it would cause them almost irreparable damage.
That's not the case for more moderate voices on left and right who have choices..
They're going to throw everything at stopping it because they know it would cause them almost irreparable damage.
That's not the case for more moderate voices on left and right who have choices..
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The threat to shut X in the UK is a threat to the whole far right ecosystem.
They're going to throw everything at stopping it because they know it would cause them almost irreparable damage.
That's not the case for more moderate voices on left and right who have choices..
They're going to throw everything at stopping it because they know it would cause them almost irreparable damage.
That's not the case for more moderate voices on left and right who have choices..