18 h. ago Scots MP tells Nigel Farage 'I was one of those kids' in backlash against Reform leader's comments on Glasgow schools

Dr Zubir Ahmed accused the Reform UK leader of peddling "hissing snake oil Putinist fifth column politics".

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62 h. ago Reform defector denies 'backstabbing' as he distances himself from Farage's Glasgow comments

Lord Offord has claimed Reform “have no issue” with Glasgow schoolchildren Nigel Farage used to stoke fears over immigrants “culturally smashing” the city.

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage must apologise and provide full transparency over alleged slurs

Record View hits out at the Reform leader on the back of his ugly comments about children in Glasgow schools who do not use English as a first language.

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4 d. ago Berkeley Street incident: Busy Glasgow road closed off amid ongoing police incident near school

A cordon is in place.

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer attacks 'toxic, divisive disgrace' Nigel Farage as PM blasts Reform's 'racist policies'

Nigel Farage has come under fire for his comments about bilingual school pupils in Glasgow.

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5 d. ago Horror crash outside private Glasgow school as police cordon off road

Emergency services were called to Kirklee Road, outside Kelvinside Academy, after the alarm was raised at around 4.10pm on Thursday.

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5 d. ago John Swinney slams Nigel Farage’s remarks on Glasgow schoolchildren as 'racist'

John Swinney condemned Nigel Farage after the Reform UK leader claimed one in three Glasgow schoolchildren do not speak English as a first language, calling the remarks “simply racist”.

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5 d. ago Nigel Farage’s comments on Glasgow schoolchildren ‘simply racist’ – John Swinney

The comments came after Mr Farage posted a video to social media.

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6 d. ago Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan

Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-ShogbamimuA Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”.Ian Cooper, the leader of Staffordshire county council, is also said to have attacked the justice secretary, David Lammy, in a social media post that said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago We can’t let ignorant racist fools tell Scotland's schools what to do

The ignorance of people protesting outside a Glasgow school and the racist abuse directed at an Inverness school’s Christmas play are worrying signs about where society is heading

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7 d. ago One in three schoolchildren in Britain's asylum capital of Glasgow don't speak English as their first language, figures show amid fears city can't cope with more arrivals

Scottish Government figures show 28.8 per cent of students in Glasgow speak English as an additional language (EAL).

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1 week ago One of Scotland’s fastest girls says closure of sports school will crush dreams of future stars

Fourteen-year-old Olivia Fisher - the fastest Scots girl in her age group - is facing uncertainty over plans to shut prestigious Glasgow School of Sport.

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1 week 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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1 week ago Keir Starmer tells Nigel Farage to apologise over racism allegations

It comes after former classmates from his time at Dulwich College, in south London, alleged that the Reform UK leader made pro-Hitler comments and joked about gas chambers

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage describes schoolboy racism claims as ‘banter in a playground’ and says he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’

The Reform UK leader was accused of making racist and antisemitic comments to classmates while at Dulwich College but said he never did so ‘with intent’

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2 w. ago ‘Never in a hurtful or insulting way’: Nigel Farage responds to schoolboy racism claims

It comes after the Reform UK leader was accused of making racist and antisemitic comments to classmates during his school days

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2 w. ago Rangers hero Martyn Waghorn lifts lid on infamous Glasgow chip shop confrontation with schoolboy who branded him ‘s***’

MARTYN WAGHORN made a huge impact at Rangers during his two-year stint at Ibrox. But an infamous incident outside a CHIP SHOP is remembered also just as much as his goals. Waghorn, now 35, was one of the new recruits of Mark Warburton's Rangers revolution in the summer of 2015. Warburton overhauled a Light Blues...

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2 w. ago Fears of more 'toxic' protests as council refuses to cancel English classes at Glasgow school

Protestors want Glasgow City Council to stop allowing immigrants to take English classes in Dalmarnock primary school - but the council is pushing back

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2 w. ago I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |

Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges When I see the allegations of racism against Nigel Farage from his schooldays, I can’t say I am greatly surprised. There are those who believe that the Reform UK leader’s persona must have been developed to win over working-class voters, or the “red wall”. I know that it is quite in keeping with the sentiments expressed by plenty of young men in elite institutions like English public schools – the kind of men who run the world.Farage was educated at Dulwich college from 1975 to 1982; there, fellow students have told the Guardian, he allegedly used racist insults about fellow pupils and sang a song with the lyrics “Gas ’em all”. I attended Eton a couple of decades later, but the attitudes of some of the people I encountered there were not very different. One pupil, having fallen out with me over some perceived slight, boasted that his...

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2 w. ago I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Musa Okwonga

Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges When I see the allegations of racism against Nigel Farage from his schooldays, I can’t say I am greatly surprised. There are those who believe that the Reform UK leader’s persona must have been developed to win over working-class voters, or the “red wall”. I know that it is quite in keeping with the sentiments expressed by plenty of young men in elite institutions like English public schools – the kind of men who run the world.Farage was educated at Dulwich college from 1975 to 1982; there, fellow students have told the Guardian, he allegedly used racist insults about fellow pupils and sang a song with the lyrics “Gas ’em all”. I attended Eton a couple of decades later, but the attitudes of some of the people I encountered there were not very different. One pupil, having fallen out with me over some perceived slight, boasted that his...

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