UK’s sorest loser Matt Goodwin claims Gorton by-election ‘rigged’

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In February, the Green Party’s Hannah Spencer wiped the floor with Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin in the Gorton & Denton by-election. Goodwin proved to be such a sore loser that people started calling him ‘Matt Badloss’. And now, Badloss has saddled up his loser pony to take another tour around the rodeo of humiliation: Matt Goodwin now on a tear about how the Gorton and Denton by-election, which he lost, by a lot, was "rigged". — Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 16, 2026 Matt Goodwin: tears of a clown As a reminder, here’s what the results looked like in the Gorton &…

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Matt Kennard explains how the ‘War on Terror’ put the far right in charge

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Journalist Matt Kennard’s book Irregular Army shows how the ‘War on Terror’ pushed the US further into authoritarian extremism. And following the release of a new expanded and revised edition, we spoke to him to find out why the book remains so relevant today. War atrocities, neo-Nazis, and Trump The Declassified UK co-founder told the Canary that: The War on Terror militarised American political life. It taught the public to accept permanent emergency, surveillance, secrecy, executive violence, and the idea that whole populations could be treated as enemies. That logic did not stay in Fallujah or Kandahar; it came home. The…

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