Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
‘A dark day for press freedom’: Left reacts to Patel’s decision to extradite Julian Assange
Following the announcement by the Home Office, politicians, activists, and advocates of free speech, have been sharing dismay at the extradition decision and support for the WikiLeaks' founder.
Tory crackdown on protests prompted by oil-funded think tank, investigation finds
Report shows that Policy Exchange, which called for the criminalisation of Extinction Rebellion and is funded by US fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil, influenced government clampdown on protest rights.
Government is creating ‘hostile environment’ for protestors, say MPs and peers
‘This latest raft of measures is likely to have a chilling effect on the right to protest in England and Wales.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, June 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
EU taking new legal action against UK on ‘illegal’ protocol move
Patience in Brussels ‘has been tested to the extreme by Boris Johnson', said a member of the European Parliament.
Nigel Farage mocked for GB News is ‘making great progress’ tweet
Given its struggle to reach large TV ratings and prolonged advertising boycott, Farage’s comments about the channel, which pitches itself as an alternative to mainstream media, were immediately leapt on and ridiculed.