63 h. ago David Lammy tells of ‘traumatic’ racial abuse in youth after Farage allegations

Deputy PM contrasts apologies from former classmates to Reform UK leader’s response to claims against himDavid Lammy has spoken of his own “traumatic” experience of being racially abused at school as he called on Nigel Farage to apologise for comments he allegedly made while a teenager.Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, said the testimony of more than 20 of the Reform leader’s school contemporaries of his racist and antisemitic behaviour was “deeply troubling”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Katie Miller’s CNN appearance descends into shouting match as she defends Tucker Carlson

Miller compared the lack of pushback from Carlson about Fuentes’ views to Phillip’s lack of pushback from her guests who have criticized her Trump aide husband

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8 d. ago Starmer calls on Farage to apologise to his alleged victims of racial abuse at school

Prime minister says Reform leader’s explanations about alleged comments are ‘unconvincing to say the least’Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.The Guardian reported last week the testimony of Peter Ettedgui, who said a 13-year-old Farage “would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Tucker Carlson puts Republican party on blast: ‘I hate them too much’

Carlson’s criticisms come in the wake of an interview he conducted with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, which has divided parts of the conservative movement

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9 d. ago Tucker Carlson called Trump a ‘total piece of s***’ after 2020 election, according to lawsuit

Remarks by conservative commentator revealed in filings from Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News, his former employer, over its coverage of president’s claims Joe Biden’s win was achieved by fraud

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1 week ago Ted Cruz compares Tucker Carlson to Zohran Mamdani in bizarre rant: ‘Very dangerous’

Cruz said Carlson ‘had gone down a very dark path’ and then compared him to Zohran Mamdani

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2 w. ago White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’

Tucker Carlson’s interview with the activist revealed the mainstream right is being flooded by extremism – and it’s now impossible to containFive days a week, thousands of fans gather online to watch Nick Fuentes hold court about the dangers of non-white immigration, feminism and “organized Jewry”. Usually dressed in a dark suit and tie, he lectures to his far-right followers, known as “Groypers”, about what he argues is the insufficient radicalism of Donald Trump’s Republican party and what he describes as the perfidies of the state of Israel and its American supporters.Fuentes’s fixation with Israel is not rooted in concern about the war in Gaza but a belief, in his telling, that Jews are responsible for most of society’s problems. Fuentes, who is 27 and lives in Illinois, has called Adolf Hitler “really fucking cool” and compared the Holocaust to the baking of cookies. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage’s biographer says Reform UK leader should apologise after fresh claims of racism at school – UK politics live

The Guardian published an investigation into Nigel Farage’s time as a schoolboy at Dulwich College, a private school in south LondonHealey is now taking questions.Q: How close are are we to war?It is Labour that is the party of defence. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations Portrait: Tom PilstonIt is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London.Ettedgui, 61, is a Bafta- and Emmy-winning director and producer whose credits include Kinky Boots, McQueen and Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump gets ‘thank you’ from racist Nick Fuentes after he defends Tucker Carlson interview with Mar

The controversy over Carlson’s interview of the Holocaust-denying racist podcaster has roiled the MAGA-forward Heritage Foundation and exposed fault lines within the Trump-era GOP

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2 w. ago Sydney Sweeney brutally mocked over her silence on white supremacy in scathing fake interview

The satirical news site The Onion took aim at her failure to speak out against white supremacy, her relationship with divisive record executive Scooter Braun and her alleged MAGA political leanings.

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2 w. ago Tucker Carlson laughs off Ted Cruz’s ‘hilarious’ attempt to use their feud to launch 2028 White House bid

‘Good luck,’ the former Fox News star said. ‘That's my comment and heartfelt view.’

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2 w. ago Trump wades into the most explosive debate in right wing media: 'People must decide'

Trump exploded at the reporter: 'Will you let me finish my statement? You are the worst! You're with Bloomberg, right? You are the worst! I don't know why they even have you.'

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2 w. ago Trump defends Tucker Carlson after interview with white nationalist splits Republican Party

Three years ago, Trump hosted Fuentes at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, along with the rapper Ye

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2 w. ago MAGA's darkest hour: MTG's Epstein revolt rips open Trump's rawest wound as Israel, economy and migrant crises close in

From Elon Musk to Tucker Carlson, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Thomas Massie, Trump has spent much of his second term turning former allies into enemies.

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2 w. ago The truth behind the chemtrail conspiracy – and why it just won’t go away

Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy. But some people – perhaps a surprising number – look to the sky and see government plots and wicked deeds written there. Conspiracy theorists say that contrails – long streaks of condensation left by aircraft – are actually chemtrails, clouds of chemical or biological agents dumped on the unsuspecting public for nefarious purposes. Different motives are ascribed, from weather control to mass poisoning.

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2 w. ago Tucker Carlson claims Patel’s FBI ‘doesn’t want us to know’ truth about ‘right

Ex-Fox host turned right-wing podcaster claims Trump administration is hiding that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a supporter of the man he came within inches of killing last year

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2 w. ago Trump shooter Thomas Crooks' hidden online history with years of assassination threats is finally exposed as Tucker Carlson blows up FBI's narrative

Comments posted by Thomas Crooks online show a detailed digital trail of violent threats that included calls for assassination and political violence, according to Carlson's new expose.

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2 w. ago Tucker Carlson claims Patel FBI ‘doesn’t want us to know’ truth about ‘right

Ex-Fox host turned right-wing podcaster claims Trump administration is hiding that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a supporter of the man he came within inches of killing last year

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2 w. ago Tucker Carlson claims Patel FBI and Bondi DOJ ‘doesn’t want us to know’ truth about ‘right wing’ Trump shooter Crooks

Ex-Fox host turned right-wing podcaster claims Trump administration is hiding that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a supporter of the man he came within inches of killing last year

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