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Reform face further questions over donation scandal

Banned from Reform’s conference, we still have a scoop!

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 5 September 2026

Farage speech heckler turns out to be Reform party member

‘If you want Farage as PM, you’re either a mug or a billionaire’ | James O’Brien – The Whole Show

‘I’m appalled’: Schools close early for A66 crash funeral

An open letter to the Green Party from the Canary about a motion against us at conference

The following is an open letter to the Green Party from the Canary management Dear Green Party, We are writing in relation to a draft…

‘Our Anger Over Jason Arday’s Death Is Not Enough’

As Cambridge University launch an inquiry into the case of Professor Arday, led by former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, Richard Sudan from The Voice argues…

Another Canary bank account has been frozen and our money held

The Canary has faced sustained attacks from both the political right and left, alongside repeated attempts to undermine our organisation and restrict our ability to…

Reform’s conference is clearest sign yet of Trumpism in the UK

From banned reporters to love-ins with business, the scandal-hit event offers troubling glimpse into a Farage government

Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting

In October 2024, things weren’t looking good for Jonathan Gullis. The former MP and Conservative Party deputy chair had been unable to find work as…

Who funds Reform? Farage’s party bags £15m from crypto and finance donors

Reform has accepted more large donations than any other party in 2026, despite mounting funding scandals, new data shows

Cambridge festival cancels pro-Palestinian academic’s book talk

“Another literary festival, another cancellation”. These are the words of Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, after Cambridge University’s Newnham College Literary Festival cancelled her…

Tech bros will tell you that geoengineering will save us, it won’t

As the latest UNEP reports we will blow past 1.5°C, we must prioritise solutions that work, rather than focusing on complex, unproven technologies

Labour has ‘no idea’ what massive data-centre projects are intended for

In a previously unreleased Freedom of Information (FOI) response, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said it does not hold information about which companies,…

Paranoid Farage accused of spouting conspiracy theories

An increasingly paranoid Nigel Farage has been accused of talking up ‘conspiracy theories’. It came in a tense exchange with a BBC interviewer in which Farage…

EXCLUSIVE: Green ‘friends of genocide’ table anti-Canary motion for party conference

The pro-Israel, so-called ‘Jewish Greens‘ group of the Green Party have followed their pro-genocide manoeuvres to block an anti-Zionism conference motion with an attack on…

Will Trump back the UK in latest Falkland Islands threat?

Reform’s cracks, Labour’s traps, and the progressive path forward

A summer of Reform scandals and a new leader have given Labour an edge – if it can resolve three key battles

Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings

The extraordinary footage echoes concerns raised by Byline Times over the sources and beneficiaries of money flowing into Farage’s party.