The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has had ‘significant’ increase in annual donations after it went to the aid of asylum seekersThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is on course for the highest annual fundraising total in its near 200-ye…
Reform UK tones down culture war rhetoric and targets Tory voters
Richard Tice promises ‘wow factor’ at party conference and criticises Conservatives over high taxesReform UK, the rebranded Brexit party, plans to focus less on culture war issues and instead try to attract disenchanted Conservatives with more weighty …
Rupert Murdoch’s launch of talkTV is about opportunism as much as ideology | Emily Bell
Piers Morgan will be presenting a nightly talkshow in this new venture aimed at outflanking the ailing GB NewsThe human Marmite of British journalism, Piers Morgan, is about to be spread very thinly. He has signed a global commentary deal with Rupert M…
Andrew Neil enters his broom cupboard years | Stewart Lee
Thanks to the arrival of Nigel Farage at GB News, the veteran newsman now finds himself among the mops and DomestosA woman I went on a blind date with in 1988 told me that witches she knew would consort with the devil at midnight, on the meadow by the …
Attacking lifeboats may seem like a new low, but the right craves a ‘migrant crisis’ | Daniel Trilling
It will take more than the RNLI’s surge in donations to end the demonisation of asylum seekersIf your politics involves frequent attacks on beloved national institutions, no matter how much you claim to be defending them from subversion, you risk looki…
The Guardian view on Fortress Europe: a continent losing its moral compass
The increasingly draconian approach to irregular migration betrays the spirit of the 1951 refugee conventionSeventy years ago, the 1951 UN refugee convention established the rights of refugees to seek sanctuary, and the obligations of states to protect…
I’ve been watching Nigel Farage on GB News so you don’t have to. Consider yourself lucky | Catherine Bennett
The struggling channel is more talked about than watched. The solution: a show from the ex-Ukip leaderNigel Farage may not be the best-loved emergency service, but as demonstrated by his recent work for GB News, the struggling, consciously patriotic ne…
The RNLI deserves better than Nigel Farage’s contempt | Tim Adams
The rescue service has a long and glorious history of saving the lives of people, wherever they come fromA couple of weeks ago, I was at Lizard Point in Cornwall. The old lifeboat station below Britain’s most southerly cliffs has long since been replac…
The Guardian view on Channel migrants: people, not political props | Editorial
The RNLI has moral justice on its side when reasserting its humanitarian mission to provide sea rescue without discriminationViewed from Downing Street, the problem of migrant boats crossing the Channel involves a conflict between a humanitarian obliga…