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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Woke bashing of the week: Pink panic: Sun spins Jaguar’s pink car into culture war fodder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

Yet another cynical attempt by a right-wing tabloid to turn a brand it has a grudge against into fodder for a culture war tirade.

Daily Mail and Sun

Right-wing media watch – Daily Mail is America’s top news brand on TikTok – yes really!

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

The Daily Mail, Britain’s most notorious right-wing newspaper, is now the most-engaged news brand on TikTok in America.

wealth tax
News

Most Brits support a wealth tax – so, which European countries have one?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

Britain is one of the most unequal countries in the OECD. The richest 10 percent of households hold 43 percent of all the country’s wealth, while the poorest half own just 9 percent.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic
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Nurses’ pay has been ‘severely eroded’ since 2010, new analysis shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

“It is time to deliver both better pay and pay modernisation for nursing staff.”

Right-Wing Watch

From Project 2025 to Project Esther: the Heritage Foundation’s authoritarian global crusade

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

Project Esther is Heritage’s latest ideological weapon. Framed as an effort to combat antisemitism, it aims to criminalise pro-Palestinian activism and equates criticism of Israel with support for terrorism.

News

Activists read names of 20,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza outside Welsh government

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

“Each was precious. Each was innocent. Many died horrific, painful deaths. There were so many of them. They must not be forgotten.”

Woke-bashing of the week: Right-wing commentators take aim at ‘woke’ banknotes

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 July, 2025

Who appears on money has always been a political choice.

Right-wing media watch – When will they get over a minor band and start acknowledging Palestinian deaths?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 July, 2025

While the British right-wing press continues its obsession with punk bands and protest chants, it remains astonishingly quiet about the devastating human toll in Gaza. Each day, Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, reports the growing death toll of Palestinian civilians, figures that rarely make it into the headlines of the Mail or the Sun.

News

Unions welcome plans to roll out family hubs across England

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 July, 2025

“Brilliant news.”

News

Right-wing media’s welfare myths exposed

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2025

Until the ‘benefit scrounger’ narrative is finally dismantled, facts will continue to take a back seat to headlines.

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