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Did antisemitism cost the Greens at the local elections?

Did the Greens’ racist candidates cost them a majority in one of their top targets? The London borough of Lambeth could have been designed by a...

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Andrew Gilligan

Politics / What will the Green party do with its new racist councillors?

Saiqa Ali, the woman who allegedly said that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, became a Lambeth councillor yesterday, elected under the Green...

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Andrew Gilligan

What will the Green party do with its new racist councillors?

Saiqa Ali, the woman who allegedly said that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, became a Lambeth councillor yesterday, elected under the Green...

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This Green candidate thinks the UK is a ‘terrorist state’

A Green candidate at tomorrow’s election has called the UK a ‘terrorist state,’ blamed Jeremy Corbyn’s demise on the ‘web of lies Israel...

06.05.2026 5

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The Green candidate who thinks Iran should bomb the White House

A Green candidate in this week’s council elections says the White House should be blown up, described Hamas taking ‘filthy hostages,’ and denies...

05.05.2026 7

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Andrew Gilligan

March of the Greenshirts: Polanski’s party are Britain’s real racists

“Back us to stop the far right,” say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far right? Saiqa Ali, a Green candidate in next week’s...

02.05.2026 10

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Andrew Gilligan

The Greens are facing a reckoning

On subjects related to Jews, Zack Polanski, Mothin Ali and the other political children in the new Green party have been playing with fire. They are...

01.05.2026 10

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Local elections / March of the Greenshirts: Polanski’s party are the real racists

‘Back us to stop the far right,’ say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far right? Saiqa Ali, a Green candidate in next week’s...

30.04.2026 10

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Andrew Gilligan

The Green party candidate who wants to ‘burn Zionism to the ground’

A Green candidate who is also a GP has repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to the ground.’ Rebecca Jones, a vegan...

23.04.2026 9

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Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians

A Green Party council candidate in Bournemouth says “the Zionists killed 20 million Christians” and are “trying to control the world.” Feda...

21.04.2026 9

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Why is this Green candidate sharing an anti-semitic post?

A terror attack on a synagogue was “not anti-semitism” but was “revenge” for Israel “murdering people,” according to a video promoted by a...

17.04.2026 10

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The hateful posts of yet another Green party candidate

The extremism of some in the Green party is increasingly being compared to Labour in Jeremy Corbyn’s time. But there is a critical difference. Most...

15.04.2026 30

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Alter ego / The trouble with the Green party’s Ifhat Shaheen

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat Shaheen-Smith or Ifhat Smith),...

12.04.2026 10

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Alter ego / The trouble with the Green party’s Ifhat Shaheen

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat Shaheen-Smith or Ifhat Smith),...

12.04.2026 30

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Andrew Gilligan

Why is Ifhat Shaheen a Green party candidate?

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat Shaheen-Smith or Ifhat Smith),...

12.04.2026 40

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Andrew Gilligan

What we get wrong about extremism

Last year I obtained a leaked copy of the new government’s ‘counter-extremism sprint’. It caused a huge political backlash – and was disowned...

02.04.2026 10

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Andrew Gilligan

What Hope not Hate doesn’t understand about liberal values

Even by its own recent standards, the latest investigation from the anti-extremism group Hope not Hate was fabulously, joyously, Rizla Micron-thin....

26.03.2026 10

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Andrew Gilligan

All the worst people like the ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition

Not worried enough yet by the government’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’? Here’s another red flag: the mild, nuanced, or downright...

18.03.2026 10

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Andrew Gilligan

This ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition is truly sinister

The government’s new official definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ is 144 words long. But in a sign that even ministers now realise what a mess...

10.03.2026 20

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Politics / The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy

Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of a “special...

07.03.2026 20

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Andrew Gilligan

The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy

Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of a “special...

06.03.2026 10

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Andrew Gilligan

The real Alaa Abd el-Fattah scandal

02.01.2026 30

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It’s time to admit that high-speed rail is a dead end

15.09.2025 10

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Andrew Gilligan

Miqdaad Versi and the troubling war on ‘Islamophobia’

09.07.2025 10

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What won’t TfL staff stop fare dodgers?

03.06.2025 20

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Andrew Gilligan