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Line illustration of an enormous megaphone hanging over three small British terraced houses, captioned thirty three million people heard about your town, Very Brexit Problems
How Elon Musk turned fascist
Nobody announces it. But there is a timeline, it is public, and Umberto Eco already wrote the checklist. Four of the fourteen signs, in Musk's own dated posts — and... Read more...
Editorial cartoon of a clipboard holding a ticked checklist on an empty table, casting an enormous looming shadow on the wall behind it, Very Brexit Problems
Nobody is far right these days. Here is the checklist anyway.
Nobody has ever answered the question honestly. So stop asking. A man who grew up inside the real thing wrote down the fourteen warning signs in 1995, and you can... Read more...
Editorial cartoon of one enormous coin standing on its edge running off the top of the frame, with a tiny queue of people at its base looking up, Very Brexit Problems
A millionaire has more in common with you than with a billionaire
Millionaire and billionaire rhyme, which is the most useful thing the very rich have ever been given for free. You are a thousand times closer to one than it is... Read more...
Editorial cartoon of a small television perched on a tall precarious stack of banknotes, with a tiny figure on a ladder tipping more notes into the back of it, Very Brexit Problems
GB News has lost £131 million. That is the business plan.
A business that loses money for five straight years while its owners keep topping it up is not failing at anything. The accounts, and what they are actually buying. Read more...
Cartoon of a large open cardboard delivery box, empty except for one small grab rail and packing paper. Caption: YOUR NEW SUPPORT PACKAGE.
The Reform guide to making your life more shit
Robert Jenrick announced fifty billion pounds of welfare cuts on Monday. Six things it actually does to you, and the one thing it quietly does for somebody else. Read more...
A British school hall set up as a polling station, with a ballot box on an exam table and wall bars behind, editorial illustration
An uneducated guess: how many voters with just a GCSE or less now back Reform?
The education gap in Reform's support is documented and it is widening. So is the gap between the people it speaks for and the people who pay for it. Read more...
Seven caricatured British people standing in a row across a scorched garden of cracked earth beside an unused hosepipe, editorial illustration
Seven Types of Climate Denier, in a Country That Just Ran Out of Water
England has just had the driest July since 1836 and half the country is in drought. A field guide to the seven people who will explain that everything is completely... Read more...
An evidence table laid with tagged exhibits under a single hanging lamp, editorial illustration
Every Nigel Farage and Reform UK scandal: the sourced register
Every documented Nigel Farage and Reform UK scandal and investigation, with dates, sources and outcomes. Updated for the Clacton by-election on 13 August 2026. Nothing here is unsourced. Read more...
Map of the Strait of Gibraltar showing Ceuta as Spanish territory on the African coast, with an ID check marked on the ferry route north to Algeciras
Ceuta Is In Africa. That Is The Whole Trick.
Ceuta sits on the African coast, and you cannot leave it for Spain without showing ID. Here is what the invasion posts left out, who repeated it, and who benefits. Read more...
Hand-drawn cartoon of a three-legged wooden stool, each leg propped on a bundle of banknotes, with an oversized political rosette resting on the seat
Who Funds Reform UK? The Donors Behind Farage's Party
Reform UK does not run on membership subscriptions. It runs on a small number of very wealthy men, several of them crypto investors. Here is who pays for it. Read more...
A pompous clown-politician on a soapbox shouts that London is finished while a calm, sunny London carries on behind him.
Is London Safe? It's Now Safer Than Every US State
London's murder rate just hit a record low — lower than New York, Berlin, Milan and every single US state. The far-right "no-go zone" myth, debunked with the Met's own... Read more...
Hand-drawn cartoon of a small pint of bitter on a pub table dwarfed by an enormous accounting ledger with pound figures spilling off the page
Nigel Farage's net worth: five houses, a £5m gift and Bitcoin
Nigel Farage's net worth: a £4m portfolio of five homes, a £5m gift from a crypto investor, around £2m in Bitcoin and £1m+ declared in a year. Itemised. Read more...
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The Tommy Robinson Supporter's Guide to Patriotism
A step-by-step guide to loving Britain the Tommy Robinson way. From sending money to a man in Benidorm to posting memes with upside-down flags, we cover all ten steps. Read more...
A locked border gate. The border did exactly what they always wanted. It just did it to them.
The Far-Right World Tour Just Lost Its UK Date
Seven international far-right figures have been banned from entering the UK to attend Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally. The irony writes itself: nationalists who've spent careers demanding closed borders... Read more...
Working-class hero diagram
The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero
Nigel Farage has spent 30 years selling himself as the man of the people. He has also spent 30 years being paid by the establishment to be that voice. Here... Read more...
A circle of EU stars on European Union blue with one star faded out
The Full List of What Brexit Took From Britain
The full inventory of what Brexit took from Britain — sixty-six things, itemised — plus the polling that shows why rejoin is now demographically inevitable. Read more...
Two line-drawn figures at lecterns — one heavyset with upswept quiff and US flag badge saying TAKE BACK AMERICA, one with side-parted hair, pint glass and Union Jack rosette saying TAKE BACK CONTROL. Editorial cartoon.
Farage and Trump have used the exact same playbook. Here are the seven moves.
There's no grand conspiracy. There's just a playbook. Seven moves, two countries, one decade of compounding damage. Read more...
Cottage window: outside is calm Norfolk countryside, inside the glass is plastered with screaming tabloid headlines. Editorial cartoon by VeryBrexitProblems.
Norfolk is 95% white. So why does it think immigration is the country's biggest problem?
The places with the least immigration vote hardest against it. There's a word for that, and it isn't observation. It's installation. Read more...
Union Jack umbrella in a storm of tariff papers, EU golden stars breaking through the clouds above — editorial cartoon in the style of Tom Gauld
Trump is the best Rejoin campaigner the EU never paid for
He campaigned for Brexit. He's now, at no charge, its most effective critic. The polls, the EU leaders openly courting Britain, the £80bn bill, and the rejoining-by-stealth Starmer won't admit... Read more...