Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT

BORIS JOHNSON’S leadership campaign is funded with donations including £20,000 from a defender of murderous fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet.
In July Johnson accepted £20,000 from Robin Birley, a London club owner with a long history of backing ultra-right-wing causes. Birley also gave £248,000 of donations to Ukip between 2011 and 2017.
Birley was involved with Pinochet in 1998. General Augusto Pinochet was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.

SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war

Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES



