Andrew Gilligan

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

2 May 2026 9:00 am

‘Back us to stop the far right,’ say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far…

The Greens are facing a reckoning

1 May 2026 10:36 pm

On subjects related to Jews, Zack Polanski, Mothin Ali and the other political children in the new Green party have been…

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

23 April 2026 6:35 pm

A Green candidate who is also a GP has repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to…

Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians

21 April 2026 3:45 pm

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

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

17 April 2026 9:52 pm

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

The hateful posts of yet another Green party candidate

15 April 2026 10:52 pm

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

The trouble with the Green party’s Ifhat Shaheen

12 April 2026 7:57 pm

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat…

What we get wrong about extremism

3 April 2026 4:14 am

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

What Hope not Hate doesn’t understand about liberal values

26 March 2026 5:00 pm

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

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

18 March 2026 5:05 pm

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

This ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition is truly sinister

10 March 2026 6:58 pm

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

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

7 March 2026 3:38 am

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

Revealed: David Lammy’s curious relationship with Guyanese Big Oil

21 February 2026 9:00 am

Better not tell Ed Miliband, but in spring 2022 his then shadow cabinet colleague, David Lammy, appears to have struck…

The real Alaa Abd el-Fattah scandal

2 January 2026 9:57 pm

The real scandal of Alaa Abd el-Fattah is that it is nothing new, and that not enough has changed. For…

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

16 September 2025 3:14 am

For those who think there could never be a worse disaster than HS2, or hope that governments can learn from…

Miqdaad Versi and the troubling war on ‘Islamophobia’

9 July 2025 11:29 pm

Readers of progressive newspapers have occasionally been invited to admire a man called Miqdaad Versi. He was the subject of…

Why won’t TfL staff stop fare dodgers?

3 June 2025 11:17 pm

In Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging video, it felt a little unfair for the Tories’ checked-shirt crusader to include that shot of…

The danger of the ‘Islamophobic’ label

8 December 2018 9:00 am

Sadiq Khan is an Islamophobe. Not just any old Islamophobe, and not just in the woollier parts of the web.…

Sadiq Khan is a lousy London Mayor. Why hasn’t anyone noticed?

7 April 2018 9:00 am

According to people at City Hall, Sadiq Khan writes some of his own press releases. I can believe it: they’ve…

No Khan do

26 November 2016 9:00 am

Let’s try a thought experiment, shall we? If a senior adviser to my old boss, Boris Johnson, had celebrated John…

Robocop returns

9 April 2016 9:00 am

Military-style policing is creeping into everyday life