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July Wasn’t a Dream – That Happened
From Macron’s Windsor dinner to the Afghan leak, Palestine policy, and Reform UK’s flag-waving cult—July was the month British politics finally broke.
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Peter C. Barnes
Waiting for Starmer: matinee politics in a failing state
The Prime Minister acts like he’s in charge. Parliament delivers its lines. But no-one believes the script anymore.
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Peter C. Barnes
We Were Promised Fairness. We Got Two-Tier, Train Strikes, and Terrorist Appeasement.
They told us the rules applied to everyone. That justice was blind. That hard work mattered. Instead, we got broken courts, rigged systems and cowardly…
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Peter C. Barnes

July 2025

Tory to the Bone — and Furious: Why the Conservative Party Deserves to Collapse
Chaos. Wasted power. Sleaze. Cowardice. Fourteen years of failure and disgrace — I’m not afraid to say it. If Reform UK loyalists had this much…
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Peter C. Barnes
Nigel Farage: The Mascot Holding Reform UK Hostage
Nigel Farage rocketed Reform UK into the polls but holds it hostage like Mickey Mouse running the House of Mouse like the godfather. It's time people…
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Peter C. Barnes
Starmer and Rayner Are Copying the Democrats’ Anti-Trump Tactics – And Farage Will Thank Them for It
Votes at 16 isn’t about democracy. Labour is rewriting the rules to block Reform UK, just as the Democrats tried to hobble Trump. It didn’t work in…
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Peter C. Barnes
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So, Apparently I’m Repulsive
A weekend that was meant to be quiet turned into one of the most emotionally raw — and unexpectedly viral — broadcasts of my life.
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Peter C. Barnes
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You Wanted Rage – Glastonbury Gave it to You...Happy?
A Glastonbury performer shouted “Death to the IDF” — and everyone picked a side, performed their outrage, and missed the point entirely
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Peter C. Barnes
We Used to Throw Bricks. Now We Applaud Sandwiches.
How Pride Went from Protest to Product—and Why We Need to Take It Back
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Peter C. Barnes
The Machine Is Dead. Diddy Just Didn’t Get the Memo.
For decades, fame was a forcefield. Lawyers, brands, and media allies built a machine to protect the powerful — and silence the rest. But that machine…
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Peter C. Barnes

June 2025

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