Woke bashing of the week – Abolish the arts council? The latest front in the war on woke
The free-market pressure group argues that AHRC is squandering taxpayers’ money on “woke pseudoscience” and should be abolished.
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Right-wing media watch – Nuts about the Greens
Pinning an electoral defeat on conspiracy-tinged claims of fraud is often easier than confronting why voters turned elsewhere.
Media-fuelled transphobia driving ‘hostile environment’ for trans people, report finds
“Decisions about trans people’s lives are increasingly based entirely on the testimony of non-trans people.”
“Stop playing politics with Gibraltar”: Fabian Picardo rebukes Suella Braverman over Gibraltar post-Brexit arrangements
“Please read all the text and the supporting documents and stop playing politics with the People of Gibraltar whose future YOU and your ilk put in great jeopardy with Brexit.”
A dark web of influence: Brexit, the hard-right and why the Epstein mentions matter
If Epstein’s networks helped broker access or funding for political movements, it’s a matter of public concern. These aren’t insinuations, but a matter of accountability, and in the unresolved story of Brexit, accountability remains in short supply.
Trump erroneously accused Obama of an ‘election war’ with Iran – now he’s doing exactly that
“For a man who hungers for the Nobel Peace Prize, this war of choice borders on delusion.”
Woke-bashing of the week: Gingerbread panic, the culture war being manufactured out of crumbs
If anything deserves scrutiny, it’s not Tesco’s labelling but the predicable, laborious voices that turn the most negligible of changes into a full-blown culture war.
Right-wing media watch: In branding Zack Polanski a ‘creep,’ Sarah Vine scrapes the barrel and merits the red pen
This isn’t political critique, it’s dehumanisation.
Gibraltar regains post-Brexit freedom of movement – to the ire of the usual Eurosceptic suspects
For pro-Europeans, the deal is long overdue for a community that voted overwhelmingly to remain.
Tim Martin mocked for minimum wage ‘is making people worse off’ comments
“This guy is excellent at convincing me never to enter one of his pubs.”