Reform’s funding scandal deepens as two senior aides step aside, a much-hyped Channel pact meets the facts, Henry Nowak’s murder is pulled into a Sikh culture-war argument, exploited migrant workers gain a route out of abusive jobs, and new figures show anti-Muslim and antisemitic hate at alarming levels. Five stories exposing the gap between the political story being sold and the evidence underneath it.

A viral clip appearing to show a niqab wearing woman claiming police could not arrest her was artificial. Synthetic video is becoming a hate multiplier. A viral video appeared to show a woman wearing a niqab telling police they could not arrest her because she was Muslim. For viewers already primed to believe that Muslims receive special treatment, it looked like instant visual proof. It was not. Fact-checkers found that the clips were AI-generated.