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On July 9, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 969, The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt. In 1753, William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (died 1825) was born. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1916, Edward Heath, English colonel and politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1970-74 (died 2005) was born. In 1958, Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Malaysian politician was born. In 1961, Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case(born 1901) passed away. In 1977, The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain. In 2006, One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia. In 2011, A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country. In 2024, Jim Inhofe, American politician (born 1934) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.

‘Bottom of the barrel’: Farage faces off against ‘bin with a face’ in by-election circus

Sky News Australia

July 8, 2026

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Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue highlighted the irony and diminished standards evident in the ongoing scandal involving Reform Leader Nigel Farage. “If nothing else, it's quite hilarious because even if he does win, and it looks like he's going to win because his opponent… is a bin with a face on it," Ms Krakue told Sky News host Chris Kenny. "If you listen closely, you can hear the bottom of the barrel being scraped. "We have the likes of Keir Starmer, who's had to resign partly because of scandals of his own, calling Nigel Farage's operation a ‘sleaze fest’, which is just the most ironic thing you’ve ever heard in your entire life.”

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