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Would Ann Widdecombe have cared about someone showing they hate her?

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:18 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

An Aberdeen University staff member has been charged with an offence after posting insensitive comments online about Ann Widdecombe‘s death. Web developer Heather Herbert called the 78-year-old politician’s death “good news” on Bluesky. She also posted that she hoped Widdecombe had died a “painful death” before it emerged her death was being treated as murder. The late former Tory MP and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead in her home on 9 July. A 28-year-old man was arrested and re-arrested in Yorkshire in connection with her death, which is now being investigated as terrorism-related. Reform UK scramble to make themselves main…

Count Binface Makerfield manifesto would stitch up Burnham

Post author:John Ranson
Post published:4 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Count Binface is among the candidates for the Makerfield by-election. So voters will have at least one coherent manifesto to ponder. UK politics has a long and rich tradition of electoral candidates who apparently exist in a different universe from everyone else. It’s how we ended up with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss as successive PMs. But aside from the utter deadbeats standing for allegedly serious parties, there’s the novelty candidate. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party pretty much wrote the book on this sort of thing. And its leader, Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope, will be lining up alongside 13 others…