Controversial Irish rappers Kneecap DROPPED from top music festival after they told cheering concert-goers to 'kill your local MP' - as pressure mounts for Glastonbury to axe them from its line-up

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 19:55 UTC

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Irish rappers Kneecap have been sensationally dropped from a top music festival following a growing backlash to their onstage controversial comments.

Controversial Irish rappers Kneecap DROPPED from top music festival after they told cheering concert-goers to 'kill your local MP' - as pressure mounts for Glastonbury to axe them from its line-up

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

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Irish rappers Kneecap have been sensationally dropped from a top music festival following a growing backlash to their onstage controversial comments.

Jo Cox family says Kneecap offering ‘half an apology’ over alleged call to kill MPs

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 13:40 UTC

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Husband of murdered Labour MP says Belfast rappers’ talk of being unfairly targeted undermines their statement

Brendan Cox, the husband of the murdered MP Jo Cox, has said the Irish rap trio Kneecap h…

Irish rap trio Kneecap break their silence with apology to families of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess after furious backlash over 'kill your local MP' jibe

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 06:55 UTC

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In a statement shared on social media, Kneecap said: 'To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt.'

Moment Irish rappers Kneecap tell cheering concert-goers to 'kill your local MP' and shout 'the only good Tory is a dead Tory' - as band face terror probe over 'pro Hamas' chants

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 16:45 UTC

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Video footage has emerged of the rap group telling a jeering audience 'the only good Tory is a dead Tory' while performing at a gig in Electric Ballroom in London.

Labour minister says she's 'not interested in what men think' about gender in swipe at Keir Starmer during bruising TV interview after Supreme Court ruling - as pressure mounts on Prime Minister to apologise to women

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 12:20 UTC

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Dame Diana Johnson, the MP for Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham was caught out on Sky News when asked whether the PM should apologise for being unable to say what a woman was in 2022.

Minister hopes supreme court’s gender ruling will ‘draw a line’ under trans debate – UK politics live

found 2025 › Apr › 17 (Thu) @ 08:20 UTC

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Health minister Karen Smyth says ‘it’s good we have clarity for women’ as Tories call for ruling to be ‘reinforced with legislation’

The co-leader of the Green party of England and Wales, Carla Denyer…

Minister's X account hacked to promote 'House of Commons' crypto scam

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 11:55 UTC

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The MP's office says "steps were taken quickly to secure the account and remove misleading posts".

Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 06:35 UTC

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Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politicians

On 13 November 1968, a 35-year-old Labour politi…

Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK election

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 11:20 UTC

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Charges follow investigation into alleged cheating related to bets placed on when general election would be held

The former Conservative MP Craig Williams is among 15 people, including several other s…