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Owen Jones: ‘Our generation’s Orwell’?

Calling in a favour from a comrade to help flog your new book is hardly a new trick, but Mr S wonders if Owen Jones really thought this one through: unnamed

Thankfully, Russell ‘the revolution is coming’ Brand is not known for his outrageous hyperbole.

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Rupert Lowe to sue Reform leadership for defamation

Back to the Reform fallout, which has escalated this afternoon. Now the party’s former MP Rupert Lowe has said he will sue his old party for defamation over what he claims is a ‘concerted smear campaign’ against him. He was suspended in March after party chairman Zia Yusuf and the chief whip Lee Anderson released

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