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Reform is ascendant but fizzling out. Reform has gone into reverse – dipping from 30% last year to 26% this. If this trend continued until the next general election, the party would land on 14%. Sadly that’s unlikely to be the case, but the prospect of a Reform majority is getting ever slimmer. Prior to last week’s elections, veteran pollster Peter Kellner said that winning 1,400 England council seats would be a “disaster” for Reform. The party clocked 1,453. Novara

Silvia Salis is a Plan B for the ruling class. Salis is not, strictly speaking, a politician: she has never sat in parliament, has no previous political career, and entered Genoa’s city hall only in May 2025. Her sporting record includes two Olympic appearances and a spell as vice president of the Italian National Olympic Committee. As a “civic” figure with no party affiliation and no left-wing past to defend, she offers a blank surface onto which everyone can project their preferred image. Jacobin

Rubio's instigator in Cuba. Hammer demonstrates a continuity in Cuba policy between the Biden and Trump regimes: in soothing tones of compassion for the “Cuban people,” he has advocated choking the island through tightening the blockade during both. He has recently felt emboldened to directly call for regime change. He openly meets with opposition groups and dissidents and flaunts his activities on social media, fanning the flames of a Cuban color revolution. Counter Punch