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Basit Mahmood

Backlash continues over Boris Johnson’s ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines

Basit Mahmood
6 August, 2021

‘These are shameful comments from Boris Johnson, and reveal the Conservative party’s utter disregard for the communities still scarred by Thatcher’s closure of the mines’

Government urged to cancel ‘discriminatory’ mass deportation flight to Jamaica that will ‘tear people away from their families’

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2021

Human rights group Liberty has described the deportation flights as ‘cruel’.

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Institute of Economic Affairs accused of ‘new kind of climate denialism’ after ‘rubbishing net-zero targets’

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2021

The IEA has rejected climate change targets as ‘arbitrary’.

Government condemned for ‘using taxpayers’ money to pay for opinion polling on Labour Party politicians’

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2021

“This all makes me really uncomfortable. Ben Warner wants us to spend £110k of public money per month with the agency who were behind vote leave who have no mainstream polling experience.”

MPs urge action on “deep-rooted and persistent racial inequalities” in policing

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2021

‘Our analysis suggests that, on the current rate of progress, we will not have properly representative police forces in England and Wales for another twenty years.’

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI backfires as charity sees donations surge by 2000% in a single day

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2021

One user wrote: “Thank you Nigel Farage & Daily Mail for criticising the incredible work the @RNLI does to rescue migrants. Due to you highlighting their endeavours I’m now donating every month”.

Council becomes first in country to pass motion stamping out DSS discrimination

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2021

Despite ‘no DSS’ policies being unlawful under the Equality Act, a meeting of the council heard that the practice was still widespread in the city

Gerard Coyne: “Obsessing around Westminster politics isn’t what I intend to be involved in”

Basit Mahmood
16 July, 2021

LFF speaks to the Unite leadership candidate.

GB News viewers crash to zero after presenter takes knee prompting boycott

Basit Mahmood
16 July, 2021

GB News, which has claimed to campaign on issues of free speech, described the gesture as an ‘unacceptable breach of our standards’

Privatising Channel 4 could lead to ‘money flowing out of the country and into pockets of multinational corporations’, say MPs

Basit Mahmood
15 July, 2021

Privatisation could also result in the channel losing its publisher-broadcaster status which means that all revenues are invested back into the production of its content.

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