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‘Clickbait and Chaos’

100 days of Reform-Run Kent County Council

Nigel Farage’s party won 57 of the 81 seats on Kent County Council in May. Councillor Mark Hood, acting leader of the council’s Green Party, sets out the scandals and soundbites that have already come to define it locally

The first 100 days of the Reform UK-led administration at Kent County Council can be summarised as chaos and clickbait.

We were told that Reform would act in the interests of the residents of Kent. Instead, we have only seen chaotic management, bigotry, and empty soundbites that help no one.

May and June were both marked by cancelled committee meetings and the postponement of training sessions, meaning that vital decisions regarding Kent’s future were delayed.

Mohamed Abu Shahma

The Grave that Lives Inside Him

In August, five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in Gaza. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 186 journalists have been confirmed as killed since the start of October 2023. Rana Sabbagh reports on the life of a Palestinian journalist she keeps in regular contact with – for whom journalism is about survival, memory is resistance, and grief colours everything
Rana Sabbagh

‘I Don’t Have Many Male Friends Because Every Time They’re Misogynistic and Sexist I Tell Them to F*ck Off’

They love to focus on the ethnicity of the perpetrators and the failures of the authorities – all of which is an issue. But they don’t want to focus on the fact that it is men.
Nazir Afzal