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Former US right wing senator Roy Moore is suing TV prankster Sacha Baron Cohen, as well as Showtime and CBS which air his Who Is America? show in a $93m lawsuit after a hilarious sketch which mocked the former conservative judge’s sex offence allegations. The lawsuit says that the show “falsely painted, portrayed, mocked and with malice defamed Judge Moore as a sex offender, which he is not.” Several women came forward to allege sexual harassment when he was in...

The ad for Viva! - featuring a pig called Hope - was screened before the 12A-rated films Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

With parliament about to restart and Boris Johnson’s blonde ambition clearly irking since he had to resign as Foreign Secretary, today’s Telegraph carries a striking portrait photo and a warning to Theresa May that her Brexit plan would spell “victory for Brussels.” “We have gone into battle waving the white flag,” despaired the ex-Foreign Sec in what much of Westminster wrote off as another cynical attempt at a leadership bid. BoJo bemoaned that the impossible Irish border situation / customs...

Broadcaster, doctor and vocal NHS campaigner Dr Phil Hammond announced on Tuesday that he would stand as a candidate for the National Health Action Party (NHA) in North East Somerset where Rees-Mogg is currently MP. Just hours later he tweeted that he had been fired from his Saturday mid-morning show on BBC Radio Bristol.  The physician and health campaigner who has made never made a secret of his politics, thanked his team and listeners. https://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/1031984648145051655 https://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/1031989829368795136 The health campaigner tweeted that...

Dr Phil Hammond will stand as a candidate for the National Health Action Party (NHA) in North East Somerset, he said on Twitter

The Labour party has made a formal complaint to the press regulator over newspaper coverage of Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance at a memorial to those killed when Israel bombed the Tunisian PLO headquarters. The Labour leader, a backbencher back in 2014 was attending a conference at the invitation of the Tunisian president and human rights campaigner Moncef Marzouki. As part of the conference Jeremy Corbyn attended a wreath laying ceremony for those, including civilians, killed in an Israeli bombing of the...

The Daily Mail could be set to soften its stance on Brexit following the appointment of pro-EU editor Geordie Greig, according to reports. Paul Dacre turned the right wing rag into a political campaigning machine in the run-up to the referendum, often weaponizing nostalgia to stoke fear and resentment and courting controversy with front page headlines such as “Enemies of the people” in relation to the three judges who ruled the government would require the consent of Parliament to give...

This is despite advertising and broadcasting regulations designed to protect children from this kind of exposure.

A tweet from the Conservative party has angered cyclists after it said that new laws would protest “our most vulnerable road users" from bike users. It has since been deleted after a backlash online and cycling minister Jesse Norman apologised after the uproar is caused. The message on the Conservative Twitter feed said: "We're launching a consultation into dangerous cycling so that our most vulnerable road users are protected." Champion cyclist Chris Boardman responded: "That says it all really. Wow,...