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Edition 80 – December 2025
36 articles
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Contents
In Edition 80 – December 2025
Edition 80 – December 2025 – Cover + Contents
1
Editorial – Seeing the Light
2
Peter Oborne’s Diary – Merger and Assignations
3
‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’
4
Bad Press Awards – The Scuffed Aluminium Sports Trophy for Most Awful Awards Show
5
‘The Hack’: ITV’s Phone-Hacking Drama Is Already Old News
6
That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Politics with a Difference
7
News In Brief – Concerning Colour ‘Concerns’
8
On the Ground – Sore Winners
9
On the Record – A Friend for Fergie
10
More Government Reforms the Media Doesn’t Mention
11
Ben Habib: ‘Money Is a Big Motivator for Farage’
12
The Nathan Gill Affair: Farage’s Close Ally and the Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
13
Reform Councillor’s Apology After Suggesting Only People with ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ Can Be English
14
Reform-Run Council Asks Opposition Politicians for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
15
Martin Rowson’s Cartoon
16
The Carousel of Scapegoats
17
The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It
18
The Lobbyist Behind the BBC Bias Memo
19
‘Neutral’ Sources and the Evidence Against Trump
20
The ‘Boriswave’ Powering the Carousel of Scapegoats
21
‘Brook House is a Money Machine’
22
Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed
23
How the Islamophobia Definition Became a New Front in the Culture War
24
Follow the Money: Why the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People
25
What Kind of World Am I Leaving For My Children?
26
‘That Fills Me with Hope – That Human to Human, We Can Find Connection, Understanding and Empathy’
27
Power in Darkness
28
Does the Mamdani Moment Signal an Off-Ramp for the Carousel of Scapegoats?
29
From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence
30
Notes on Now – Indignity
31
Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – Social Immobility
32
Mandrake – Splitting Heirs
33
Letters – December 2025
34
Zeitgeisters – Melanie Challenger
35
Puzzle Solutions – Edition 80
36
The Upside Down – Mad, Sad and Glorious to Know
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