#Political controversy

Articles (10)

• 🇬🇧 Tory chief whip reposts AI video created by far-right figure who was jailed for hate crimes — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Rebecca Harris promotes latest Crewkerne Gazette skit, created by Joshua Bonehill-Paine who says he is Tory member</p><p>The Conservative party’s chief whip has been condemned for promot...

  Related: #AI ethics
• 🇺🇸 Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump have said the families of service members who died in the Iran war told them to finish the job.

  Related: #Military families
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration to display statue of founding father who enslaved dozens — 19/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Historical representation
• 🇺🇸 Trump says a former president had an Iran confession. Aides to his predecessors deny recent contact — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Twice on Monday, President Donald Trump said he'd wrangled a confession of sorts from an Oval Office predecessor who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the...

  Related: #Foreign policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump said he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran. Four denials suggest otherwise. — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  It appears he did not speak to former President Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.

  Related: #Foreign policy
• 🇺🇸 Board Delays Vote on Trump’s Ballroom Amid Deluge of Public Criticism — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  The National Capital Planning Commission, led by Trump allies, moved the vote to next month. It has received about 32,000 comments on the project, more than 98 percent of them negative.

  Related: #Public opposition
• 🇺🇸 No Decision Reached on Future of Berlin Film Festival Chief Tricia Tuttle — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  The governing body of the Berlin Film Festival has failed to reach a decision on whether to continue the contract of its festival director, Tricia Tuttle. The non-decision came at an extraordinary mee...

  Related: #Cultural leadership, #Film industry solidarity
• 🇬🇧 Australian PM apologises after calling child sex abuse survivor and advocate 'difficult' — 26/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame said the word was a "misogynist's code for a woman who won't comply".

  Related: #Gender politics, #Sexual abuse advocacy
• 🇺🇸 AOC's Munich remarks about potential U.S. troops in Taiwan draw criticism — 17/02/2026 [USA]

  At the Munich Security Conference, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was asked about the deployment of U.S. troops to Taiwan should China make a move. Political strategists Kendra B...

  Related: #Taiwan-China relations, #U.S. foreign policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump said "everyone has known" about Epstein in call to police two decades ago, records show — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  Newly surfaced records show that 20 years ago, then-private citizen Donald Trump called police in Palm Beach, Florida, about Jeffrey Epstein. He told police, "Thank goodness you're stopping him. Every...

  Related: #Legal investigation, #Law enforcement