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Guido Fawkes20 Aug 2026

Mahmood Plots Rwanda-Style Crackdown on Failed Asylum Seekers

Shabana Mahmood is drawing up a Rwanda-style scheme to remove failed asylum seekers to third countries, two years after Labour scrapped the actual Rwanda plan on the grounds that it was “a gimmick“. It turns out ‘smashing the gangs’ wasn’t a deterrent after all… Mahmood said in an interview with the Sun: “We are also…

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Guido Fawkes19 Aug 2026

Only Half of Eligible Taxpayers File First ‘Making Tax Digital’ Return

Just over half of eligible taxpayers filed their first of five annual tax returns in the hated new ‘Making Tax Digital’ scheme. This is going to be a disaster… Last year HMRC told more than 864,000 sole traders and landlords that they were required to enter Making Tax Digital for Income Tax from 6 April…

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Guido Fawkes18 Aug 2026

Oliver Dowden Photographs Himself Looking Sad in a Field to Protest Housebuilding

Ex-DPM Oliver Dowden has photographed himself looking sullen in a field to display his upset at new rules in the National Planning Policy Framework making it easier to build new homes near train stations. An obvious place to build them… I am very worried about the government’s latest planning reforms published today, which will give…

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Guido Fawkes17 Aug 2026

LIVE: Jenrick Lays Out Reform Plans to Cut Welfare by More Than £50 Billion

Robert Jenrick is unveiling cuts to benefits proposed by Reform: More than one million foreigners living in Britain would be banned from claiming almost all benefits. Extends an earlier pledge (universal credit only) to cover housing benefit, pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance, child benefit, free childcare and disability benefits. An estimated 1.3 million foreigners currently claim…

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Guido Fawkes17 Aug 2026

Burnham Texted Imposter Posing as Trump’s Chief of Staff

According to Politico, Andy Burnham exchanged a series of text messages with someone impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Luckily it was only “a few messages” which were of “no significance”, and the PM eventually grew suspicious. A security disaster narrowly avoided apparently because the PM just likes to natter before saying anything…

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Guido Fawkes14 Aug 2026

French Under-15s Social Media Ban Struck Down by Top Court

Macron passed legislation to ban under-15s from social media. The Constitutional Council says this unduly inhibits the free expression of adults: “By prohibiting minors ‌under the age of fifteen ⁠from accessing certain online services, the law inherently ​requires every person, even ‌an adult, to prove their age before accessing them. However, by failing to specify…

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Guido Fawkes13 Aug 2026

IN FULL: The 40 Local Authorities With No Illegal Migrants – Until Burnham Carts Them In

Here are the authorities that are housing no asylum seekers this year, until Burnham moves them in. There are 40 of them as of March 2026: Adur Ards and North Down Argyll and Bute Arun Cambridge Ceredigion City of London Cotswold Derbyshire Dales East Hertfordshire East Renfrewshire Epsom and Ewell Fenland Fermanagh and Omagh Guildford…

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Guido Fawkes13 Aug 2026

“Angry” Burnham Attacks Water Companies

Burnham has attacked water companies after some of them raised bills in line with regular Ofwat structures. Southern Water: £43 extra (down to £37 in 2029); Thames Water: £3 up to £5 in 29; Severn Trent £3 to £5; Wessex Water £4 to £7; South East Water up by £1 in 2029. Labour sharpening the…

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Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Prospect Pulls Plug on Rusbridger and Barber Podcast

Media Confidential, which apparently was the name of Prospect magazine’s weekly podcast hosted by Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber, is no more. It has now been cancelled by editor Philip Collins (not that one), who succeeded Rusbridger in the editor’s chair last year. Ouch… Barber wrote on his Substack this week: “Sadly, in a bid…

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Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Cambridge University Launches ‘Full Investigation’ Into Jason Arday Appointment

Cambridge University Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice has announced the university will launch an investigation into the appointment of Jason Arday, as well as a review of its Misconduct in Research policy. The results will then guide a review into the appointment process for senior academic roles. Which would be helpful, to put it mildly… Read…

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

LIVE: Farage & Yusuf Announce Plan to Free Up Prison Places

Farage and Zia Yusuf are live to announce their plan to free up 10,000 prison places by deporting foreign criminals who are in prison in the UK. If they can’t be repatriated securely, they will be put in rented prisons abroad in places like El Salvador… Read the policy in full here:

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Guido Fawkes4 Aug 2026

WATCH: O’Brien Rants About Media Scrutiny of Burnham’s Early Holiday

Watch the clip above to see LBC’s James O’Brien say with a serious face “it’s just insane how patronising some people are to their readers“. Pots, kettles… It forms part of a furious rant he inflicted on his listeners this morning. Apparently is is absurd for the media to report on the PM taking a…

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