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- Edition 80 – December 2025 – Cover + Contents
- Editorial – Seeing the Light
- Peter Oborne's Diary – Merger and Assignations
- ‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’
- Bad Press Awards – The Scuffed Aluminium Sports Trophy for Most Awful Awards Show
- ‘The Hack’: ITV’s Phone-Hacking Drama Is Already Old News
- That's True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Politics with a Difference
- News In Brief – Concerning Colour ‘Concerns’
- On the Ground – Sore Winners
- On the Record – A Friend for Fergie
- More Government Reforms the Media Doesn’t Mention
- Ben Habib: ‘Money Is a Big Motivator for Farage’
- The Nathan Gill Affair: Farage’s Close Ally and the Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
- Reform Councillor’s Apology After Suggesting Only People with ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ Can Be English
- Reform-Run Council Asks Opposition Politicians for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
- Martin Rowson's Cartoon
- The Carousel of Scapegoats
- The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It
- The Lobbyist Behind the BBC Bias Memo
- ‘Neutral’ Sources and the Evidence Against Trump
- The ‘Boriswave’ Powering the Carousel of Scapegoats
- ‘Brook House is a Money Machine’
- Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed
- How the Islamophobia Definition Became a New Front in the Culture War
- Follow the Money: Why the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People
- What Kind of World Am I Leaving For My Children?
- ‘That Fills Me with Hope – That Human to Human, We Can Find Connection, Understanding and Empathy’
- Power in Darkness
- Does the Mamdani Moment Signal an Off-Ramp for the Carousel of Scapegoats?
- Notes on Now – Indignity
- From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – Social Immobility
- Mandrake – Splitting Heirs
- Letters – December 2025
- Zeitgeisters – Melanie Challenger
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 80
- The Upside Down – Mad, Sad and Glorious to Know
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Reform-Run Council Asks Opposition Politicians for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration has failed to identify the millions of pounds in savings it promised voters in May. Josiah Mortimer reports
The Carousel of Scapegoats
People are social animals and – in the absence of an absolute improvement in your life – there is a destructive but all too human solution: make sure others are relatively more miserable than you are.