Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Right-Wing Media Watch – ‘Thanks for the publicity’: Care4Calais brilliantly reclaims a Daily Mail ‘hit piece’
The approach follows a well-worn pattern in the right-wing British press. Humanitarian action reframed as controversy, aid depicted as incentive, and Muslim identity positioned as an additional source of tension.
Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness
The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.
Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading
The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.
From lockdown to legitimacy: how pandemic fringe politics pushed populism into the mainstream
The longer-term political consequences of the pandemic’s spread of fringe beliefs are visible in the evolution of Reform UK. Its anti-lockdown positioning provided Nigel Farage with a means to reconnect with disaffected voters and reassert his political relevance, much as he had done, with notable success, during the Brexit campaign.
Thousands sign petition calling for UK to join the European single market
“It would make it easier for British companies to trade, collaborate and hire, and it would help restore the confidence international investors once had in the UK as a gateway to Europe."
Woke bashing of the week – From Greta to Packham: How ‘eco zealots’ became the right-wing press’s favourite targets
If the anti-woke clan has a set of favourite villains, the so-called ‘eco zealots’ must rank near the top.