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NIGEL FARAGE’S Brexit Party has chosen a candidate for the European elections who thinks people should be free to watch child pornography and terror videos online.
“Free speech” fanatic Claire Fox told the Telegraph: “I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the internet — no ifs.”
When questioned, she said this included child abuse and terrorism videos, even though she felt they were “vile” and “illegal.”
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war