Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Sadiq Khan praised for blocking Met’s £50m Palantir AI deal
“Good for Sadiq. Why should Palantir get their hands on our data? I wouldn’t trust them an inch.”
Woke-bashing of the week: When even the Chelsea Flower Show becomes ‘woke’
The article opens with artist Grayson Perry’s quip that Chelsea is “Glastonbury for people who wear linen,” a line obviously intended as affectionate satire, but repurposed as the prelude to a familiar conservative grievance narrative.
Right-wing media watch: Daily Mail lines up veteran Brexiteers to sound the ‘Brejoin’ alarm
A decade on from the referendum, the case for Brexit sounds like a tired record stuck on repeat.
Mick Lynch torches the Telegraph over Reform UK drift – and the public agrees!
“What I see coming out of The Telegraph every day is making space for racism – and racism is in the eye of the beholder. You are on the way to aligning Reform, and my prediction is that [The Telegraph] will support Reform at the next election.”
The Murdoch effect: How the right abandoned climate conservatism
“Murdoch will be looked back on by historians as someone who used their media monopoly to influence the destabilisation of the Earth’s climate.”
French far-right signal it could block any return to the EU
The comments came as the Labour leadership crisis has pushed the UK’s relationship with the EU back into the spotlight.