Very Brexit Problems News: Farage, Reform UK and Brexit

What Has Brexit Actually Cost Britain? The Brexit Bill Itemised

Ten years after the £350m bus we took seven promises from Brexit and checked each one against what it cost. The total at the bottom is in the video. Read more...

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Who Actually Owns Reform UK: A Field Guide to the Two Crypto Billionaires Who Bought It

On Friday 11 September a man who lives in Hong Kong gave Nigel Farage's party thirty six million pounds. On Saturday a man who lives in Bangkok matched it. Seventy... Read more...

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What You Can Do About the Threat of AI Wiping Us Out, Ranked by Whether It Works

On 8 September a 27 year old British researcher quit Anthropic, sat on a park bench in San Francisco and posted that the people building AI earnestly believe it could... Read more...

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How the East End Stopped Mosley's Blackshirts at Cable Street in 1936

On 4 October 1936, five thousand men in black shirts assembled to march through the East End of London. It was a deliberate provocation, aimed squarely at the Jewish community... Read more...

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Nine Things You Can Actually Do About the Far Right in Britain

Take back control. It was a good slogan, which is an annoying thing to admit, and it worked because it offered people something to do at a moment when most... Read more...

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How Britain's Far-Right Parties Have Always Collapsed, From Mosley to UKIP

Every twenty years or so, Britain is told that the far right is about to win. It has been told this by broadsheets, by broadcasters and by the parties themselves,... Read more...

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The Year the Daily Mail Campaigned for Britain's Blackshirts

In January 1934, the Daily Mail ran a full page editorial urging its readers to support the British Union of Fascists. The headline was "Hurrah for the Blackshirts". It was... Read more...

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Seven Signs Your Grandad Has Been Radicalised by Facebook

It happens slowly and then all at once, and the strange part is that the vocabulary changes before the opinions do. A man who has spent seventy years describing things... Read more...

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Britain's New Data Centres Are Being Built Where There Is Already No Water

In August, twenty seven million people in England were told not to use a hosepipe. Not to fill a paddling pool, not to wash the car, not to keep a... Read more...

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Seven Types of British Patriot, and What Each One Actually Loves

Patriotism in Britain has become a competitive sport with no agreed rules, no referee and an enormous number of people convinced they are winning it. Everybody is patriotic. Everybody else... Read more...

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Every Form, Permit and Fee Brexit Added to Ordinary Life

Nobody voted for the paperwork. I have been through the leaflets, and it is not in there. There was a bus with a number on it, there were some claims... Read more...

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Why Rejoining the EU Is Inevitable

The majority that voted for Brexit no longer exists. Nobody was persuaded. The electorate simply changed, one funeral and one eighteenth birthday at a time. Read more...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. 57 entries, updated 7 September 2026 with the Channel 4 donations sting and the Clacton... Read more...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...